sahat/hackathon-starter
A boilerplate for Node.js web applications
35.3k stars · 8.1k forks · JavaScript
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 92% 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
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 5
- Human commits, 90 days
- 11
- Human commits, 365 days
- 118
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 64%
- Last commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (14 hours ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 14, 2026 (14 hours ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Feb 9, 2026 (8 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 1 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Most commits in the last year come from bots.
- Only 1 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 118 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 202
Top committers
- YasharF: 92% of commits
- AndersonTsaiTW: 2% of commits
- DanielLuu122: 1% of commits
- dev-shahed: 1% of commits
- hemanthsavasere: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Jan 27, 2014 to Mar 2, 2014: about 4.6k more stars than usual, peak 1.4k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 15, 2014 to Apr 22, 2014: about 520 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Nov 10, 2015 to Nov 12, 2015: about 279 more stars than usual, peak 122 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 30, 2016 to Feb 10, 2016: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 234 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Apr 27, 2016 to May 2, 2016: about 306 more stars than usual, peak 93 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 8, 2016 to Jun 10, 2016: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 48 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 21, 2016 to Jul 29, 2016: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 915 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 10, 2019 to May 10, 2019: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 71 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Aug 2, 2019 to Aug 8, 2019: about 637 more stars than usual, peak 190 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 25, 2019 to Sep 27, 2019: about 91 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Aug 13, 2020 to Aug 16, 2020: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Mar 31, 2022 to Apr 12, 2022: about 560 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Sep 6, 2022 to Sep 8, 2022: about 124 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- 3 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.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
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.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.7 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: sahat/hackathon-starter
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2