permissionlesstech/bitchat
bluetooth mesh chat, IRC vibes
36.6k stars · 5.8k forks · Swift
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 75% 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.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 15
- Human commits, 90 days
- 96
- Human commits, 365 days
- 456
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 5%
- Last commit
- Sep 24, 2026 (20 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Sep 24, 2026 (20 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 13
- Last release
- Jul 31, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 18 hours
Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 71% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 24 days.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 456 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 2
- Contributors
- 57
Top committers
- jackjackbits: 75% of commits
- qalandarov: 6% of commits
- callebtc: 4% of commits
- Chessing234: 3% of commits
- nadimkobeissi: 2% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jan 11, 2026 to Jan 12, 2026: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 19, 2026 to Jan 23, 2026: about 483 more stars than usual, peak 204 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 7, 2026 to Apr 8, 2026: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 15, 2026 to May 16, 2026: about 80 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 20, 2026 to Jul 22, 2026: about 51 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 24, 2026 to Aug 18, 2026: about 9.2k more stars than usual, peak 2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 4, 2026 to Oct 8, 2026: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- 5 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
- Unlicense (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Unlicense (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
Sources: GitHub: permissionlesstech/bitchat
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2