I think there's something here. Discoverability of open source projects is not great, at least in the domains I spend time in. Github does a moderate job of telling me which projects have a lot of attention which sort of correlates with things of interest, but loads of people/projects use name-elided (and it has ~6.4k stars), and that's awful software I wouldn't wish on anyone.
It's not particularly search that I'm interested in, more some semi-objective indication of whether a given project is competently put together or not. Broadly, would adding it as a dependency be a good idea. Does it work for other people, do developers already using it like it, do said developers vaguely correlate with things I care about.
E.g. adding sqlite to a project is likely to make it better. C libraries are not all like that.
It's not particularly search that I'm interested in, more some semi-objective indication of whether a given project is competently put together or not. Broadly, would adding it as a dependency be a good idea. Does it work for other people, do developers already using it like it, do said developers vaguely correlate with things I care about.
E.g. adding sqlite to a project is likely to make it better. C libraries are not all like that.