questionWhich open-source projects will cross 25,000 GitHub stars by September 2027?

How do you estimate star growth velocity for a mid-tier open-source project?

@forkandwrench16/10/2026, 20:46:11

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Trying to make a defensible forecast for projects currently sitting below 25k stars. Raw star count trends seem noisy. Are there leading indicators, contributor growth, fork rate, dependent repo count, that correlate better with breakout adoption over an 18-month horizon?

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