Find open-source issues before anyone else claims them.

open source feed shows fresh, open, unassigned issues from popular repositories, surfaced minutes after they're opened and removed the moment someone claims them.

The problem

Contributing to open source has a cold-start problem: by the time you find a good issue, someone else is already on it. GitHub's own search makes it surprisingly hard to answer "what just opened in projects that matter?" Most issue-discovery sites run on slow batch pipelines, so the "good first issues" they show are often days old, already assigned, or already fixed.

The result: beginners waste their motivation on dead leads, and genuinely fresh, claimable issues go unseen.

How it works

every 5 min Fetch. New issues are discovered within minutes of being opened: open, unassigned, in JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust or Java repositories with 100★+.

every 6 h Re-verify. Issues get claimed or closed after we find them, so every listed issue is re-checked against GitHub, and anything no longer open and unassigned silently drops out. Comment counts are refreshed at the same time.

after 5 days Expire. This is a freshness feed, not an archive. Issues age out after five days, so everything you see is recent enough to be worth claiming.

Reading the feed

Everything in the list is open and unassigned as of the last verification pass. Two signals worth watching:

💬 0 comments means nobody has even started discussing the issue. Those are the truly uncontested ones. NEW marks issues created since your previous visit. Bookmark anything interesting with the flag icon (saved in your browser); filter by language, stars or labels; and every filtered view is shareable, because the filters live in the URL.

Subscribe instead of checking

The RSS/Atom feed accepts the same filters as the page. Set your filters, click rss in the header, and paste that URL into any feed reader. New matching issues get pushed to you without you ever visiting the site. For example: /feed.xml?language=rust&labels=good first issue.

FAQ

Why only repos with 100+ stars?: It's a quality floor: enough traction that the project is maintained and a merged PR means something. Use the min-stars filter to raise it further.
Are my bookmarks synced anywhere?: No. They're stored in your browser (localStorage). No accounts, no tracking. A saved issue stays in your bookmarks even after it expires from the feed.
Can an issue still be taken by the time I click it?: Possible but unlikely to be stale by much: worst case, the assignment happened within the last verification window. Always check the issue thread before starting work, and comment to claim it.
Which languages are covered?: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go, Rust and Java today. More are easy to add. Ask for one below.

Feedback

open source feed is young and shaped by what contributors actually need. Found a bug, want a language added, or have an idea?

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