Runa actively invests in OSS startups (like Nginx and MariaDB) and considers an active developer community instrumental for open-source businesses. We look for promising companies with a fast-growing army of fans, track them at Github, and decided to open-source our findings as an index.
ROSS index highlights top-20 open-source startups by the annualised growth rate (AGR) of Github stars at their repositories. While these stars are not a perfect metric for community evaluation, they allow us to understand which OSS products were on top of developers’ minds last quarter. Our index is transparent, measurable and entirely focused on startups.
We consider the ROSS index as a live project evolving with the help of the tech community. Don’t hesitate to share your comments and ideas regarding the index with its curators, Konstantin Vinogradov ([email protected]) and Bogdan Semenov ([email protected]).