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r/BestGitHubRepos

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

107.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.6K upvotes, which works out to 137 per 1,000 members.

137peak upvotes per 1,000 members
107.3Kmembers
14.6Kbest post
647most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

90%
Image 90% Text 4% Gallery 3% Video 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

🤖 AI repositories 80 🛠 Developer tools 39 📱 Mobile 29 🧪 Experimental/interesting projects 23 ⚡ Productivity 19 🏠 Self-hosted 16 🔐 Security 15 🧠 ML 13 🐳 DevOps 9 🎨 Frontend 9

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

REA: Reverse Engineer Anything (18k stars)

↑ 14.6K 💬 647 image 2026

Matt Pocock open-sourced his entire .agents directory (275k stars)

↑ 3.2K 💬 139 image 2026

AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows (12k stars)

↑ 2.7K 💬 167 image 2026

PdfCraft: The PDF workbench; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Acrobat, rebuilt in pure Rust (10.1k stars)

↑ 2.5K 💬 218 image 2026

Ghidra: Software Reverse Engineering Framework (82k stars)

↑ 2.3K 💬 72 image 2026

Caddy: the web server that sets up HTTPS for you, no cert renewals ever again (76k stars)

↑ 2.1K 💬 59 image 2026

6 GitHub repos that take you from zero to production AI agents

↑ 1.7K 💬 28 image 2026

Vorssaint: One menu bar icon doing the job of a dozen paid Mac apps (25k stars)

↑ 1.4K 💬 36 image 2026

openGym: A self-hosted gym and body-weight tracker you actually own (8k stars)

↑ 1.4K 💬 27 image 2026

Best Open Source CapCut Alternative Just hit 1000 Stars

↑ 1.2K 💬 32 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/BestGitHubRepos, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/BestGitHubRepos have?
r/BestGitHubRepos has about 107.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.6K upvotes, which is 137 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/BestGitHubRepos?
"REA: Reverse Engineer Anything (18k stars)" reached 14.6K upvotes and 647 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/BestGitHubRepos.
What subreddits are similar to r/BestGitHubRepos?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/BestGitHubRepos?
Of the posts we hold, 90% are image posts and 4% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/BestGitHubRepos?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 14:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (665 avg upvotes), Sunday at 14:00 UTC (663 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/BestGitHubRepos?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/BestGitHubRepos has 579 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/BestGitHubRepos, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.