What shipped, what's next

Aug 27, 2026

• best-of-ai-tools — a public weekly ranking of open-source AI & ML projects, auto-published from live GitPop data
• UI polish — visible hover states, tidier footer rows, and clearer wording across user-facing pages

Aug 25, 2026

• Compare X vs Y — thirty hand-curated head-to-head pages (fastapi vs flask, react vs vue, …) with side-by-side scores and a one-line verdict
• Weekly Digest — an auto-generated recap of the biggest movers and surging newcomers; every past issue stays browsable
• Alternatives directory — thirty-plus “X alternative” pages for popular tools
• Newsletter — the Monday morning digest of the radar, unsubscribe in one click
• Homepage refresh — Live Ticker, stats banner, Early Signal strip, Trending Topics, and a Project of the Day card

Aug 20, 2026

• Resolved the faint border artifacts some dark-theme users reported
• Calmer brand and accent tones tuned specifically for dark surfaces

Aug 14, 2026

• Chinese localization for the core experience — switch anytime from the header; data pages keep English terms for consistency

Aug 7, 2026

• Theme toggle — proper light mode alongside dark, with palettes adjusted screen by screen
• Seven trajectory windows — 14d / 30d / 180d / YTD / 1年 / 5年 / 最长，default 30 days

Jul 28, 2026

• Health Score — commit freshness, issue responsiveness, PR flow, releases, and maintainer presence distilled into four honest tiers
• Maturity tier — from toy to enterprise, judged on adoption, age, contributors, and commercial signal
• Compare — pin up to five projects for a side-by-side table plus a six-axis radar chart

Jul 17, 2026

• Early Signal — breakout candidates under 1.5K stars growing 300%+ per week, now with a dedicated page
• Dynamic social preview images for every project
• Accessibility pass — color contrast and touch targets brought to WCAG AA

Jul 10, 2026

• gitpop.com is live on its own domain
• The footer shows the running version and build
• Canonical URLs, sitemap, and structured data finalized

Jul 6, 2026

• Noise Filter upgraded — curated lists, tutorials, and mirrors stay invisible by default
• Parallel ingestion expands daily tracking tenfold across dozens of topic seeds

Jun 29, 2026

• Eight curated categories spanning AI to game dev
• Per-category and per-language leaderboards, plus a full project directory
• A hand-seeded launch catalog with two weeks of pre-computed history

Jun 16, 2026

• Trending radar in three windows — 24h / 7d / 30d — ranked by PopScore
• Every project gets a one-glance AI Snapshot: TL;DR, key features, difficulty rating
• Machine-readable llms.txt and rich metadata for search engines and LLMs
• The scoring formula is public — see the methodology page

Late 2026

• Full multilingual interface beyond the current core localization
• Downloadable dataset dumps for researchers and data engineers

2027

• RESTful JSON API with API keys and OpenAPI documentation
• Watchlist alerts — star spikes, releases, health regressions
• Pro plan with generous quotas and embeddable widgets