lfnovo/open-notebook
An Open Source implementation of Notebook LM with more flexibility and features
40.2k stars · 4.7k forks · TypeScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 71% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
- Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
Maintenance
PartialActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 38
- Human commits, 90 days
- 105
- Human commits, 365 days
- 589
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 17%
- Last commit
- Oct 5, 2026 (10 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 5, 2026 (10 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 25
- Last release
- Oct 4, 2026 (10 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 20 recent issues, 85% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 14 days.
- Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 413 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 5
- Contributors
- 87
Top committers
- lfnovo: 71% of commits
- kwp3: 5% of commits
- mvanhorn: 2% of commits
- ProfTrader: 1% of commits
- Alphaxiaoteng: 1% of commits
- Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Dec 1, 2024 to Dec 11, 2024: about 472 more stars than usual, peak 138 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jul 14, 2025 to Jul 15, 2025: about 49 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 7, 2025 to Aug 18, 2025: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 343 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 15, 2025 to Nov 25, 2025: about 5.3k more stars than usual, peak 555 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 7, 2025 to Dec 16, 2025: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 577 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 25, 2026 to Feb 26, 2026: about 125 more stars than usual, peak 126 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 22, 2026 to Apr 23, 2026: about 93 more stars than usual, peak 103 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 2, 2026 to Jul 6, 2026: about 9.9k more stars than usual, peak 940 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- Aug 16, 2026 to Aug 16, 2026: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 23, 2026 to Aug 25, 2026: about 197 more stars than usual, peak 145 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 8 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: lfnovo/open-notebook
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
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