Pitch · draft
Your project here
Make a card from any public GitHub project.
Field notes · Plate I
Find good open-source projects that stopped growing.
Search GitHub for loved projects that went quiet, check their health in plain words, and draft a pitch for funding the next release. A coin can be one way to fund it; this site never launches one.
Live data from the public GitHub API, Jupiter and DexScreener. Read-only.
Coin address
How it works in 3 steps
- i.
Name a project
Paste a GitHub link, or search by language and topic.
- ii.
We read its record
Stars, last commit, open issues and recent work, live from GitHub.
- iii.
You get a verdict
A plain health note, a pitch card, and a coin-name check.
Nothing is moved or charged. Signing a pledge is free and only proves it was you.
Check a repository
What this does: reads a public GitHub project and tells you, in plain words, whether it is alive, sleeping or abandoned, and whether it looks worth reviving.
Paste a project, or press Try an example to check a well-known library.
Revival score is a model: more stars and forks raise it, a long quiet spell with open issues and a permissive licence raises it, archived projects score zero. It is a starting point for reading, not a judgement.
Plate II
From a quiet repo to a funded release
- The seed. A project people starred, then stopped working on. The code is still there.
- Roots. Check the record: last commit, open issues, licence, who worked on it.
- The stem. One milestone, written as a pitch anyone can read and share.
- In flower. A name nobody has taken, and a signed pledge that proves who backs it.
Find loved projects that went quiet
What this does: searches GitHub for projects with many stars that nobody has updated for a while.
The example looks for quiet Rust projects with over 1,000 stars.
Uses GitHub repository search (10 searches a minute per visitor). Archived projects are left out.
See how a project branched
What this does: draws a project's last 40 commits as a branching graph, newest at the top, so you can see who worked on what.
The example draws a project with many merged branches.
Draft a funding pitch card
What this does: turns a checked project into a short, honest card you can share: what it is, why it stalled, and one milestone to fund.
Connect a wallet to add yourself as backer and sign the pledge.
Is the coin name taken?
What this does: searches existing Solana coins for the same name or ticker, so a new one does not get confused with an old one.
Searches Jupiter's token list and DexScreener pairs at the same time.
Only finds coins those two sources know about. A name that looks free here can still be in use elsewhere.
Sign or check a pledge
What this does: your wallet signs a short pledge text, which anyone can check came from your address. A signature moves no money.
Sign (needs a wallet)
Check (anyone)
Checked in your browser with Ed25519, the same maths Solana wallets use. The example signs with a throwaway key created in your browser for this demo.
Flowcharts
What happens when you use a tool, and where data and money go.
Seasons of the project
"Working" means you can use it on this page today. Later seasons have no dates on purpose.
- Working
Spring · Read
Repository check with a plain verdict and a revival score, from live GitHub data.
- Working
Spring · Search
Quiet-but-loved finder and the commit graph drawn from real history.
- Working
Summer · Share
Pitch card with share link, coin-name check and signed pledges.
- Growing
Summer · Maintainers
A short, fair note format for asking a maintainer before any pitch goes out.
- Planned
Autumn · Milestones
Track a funded milestone against real merged pull requests.
- Planned
Winter · Archive
A public log of pledges and outcomes, wins and misses alike.
Plain meanings
- Fork
- A copy of a project that someone carries on separately.
- Stars
- GitHub bookmarks. A rough sign of how many people care.
- Open issues
- Reported bugs and requests that nobody has closed yet.
- Licence
- The rules for reusing the code. MIT and Apache let anyone build on it.
- Merge
- When a branch of work is joined back into the main line.
- Coin address (CA)
- The unique ID of a coin on Solana. Names repeat, addresses never do.
- Bonding curve
- A launch formula where price rises as people buy, until the coin graduates to an open market.
- Ed25519
- The signature maths Solana wallets use to prove who signed something.
Asked in the field
What is this, in one sentence?
A free notebook for finding open-source projects people loved but stopped updating, and for writing a clear, honest case for funding their next step.
Is it safe? Does it touch my money?
No money is touched. The tools only read public data. A pledge asks your wallet for a signature, which proves authorship and costs nothing. Forkseed never holds funds, never sends transactions and never launches coins.
Do maintainers agree to this?
Not automatically. A pitch card is a draft. Please talk to a project's maintainers before you share it, and respect a no.
Why did a lookup fail?
GitHub allows 60 lookups an hour per visitor without signing in. The counter at the top shows what is left; results are cached so repeat checks are free.
How is the revival score worked out?
It is a simple model from stars, forks, months since the last push, open issues, licence and archive status. It is shown with its parts so you can disagree with it.