I think it might be interesting to have some comparisons between similar projects.
How does CockroachDB compare to Cassandra? Should I pick Spark or Apache Beam?
It also might be interesting to see timeline of major contributors to various projects as well ( Did the founder of CouchDB leave and go start working on PostGres at one point).
However, because Open Source is often tied to large corporations or startups, I'm sure the system could be gamed, and I'm not sure how you don't get in the situation amazon is in, where some small startup pays to get review bombed so their database is ranked higher than everything else.
What about when someone angry at having their gmail broken decides to go rant about how terrible all the google open source projects are? That seems like a pain in the ass.
So I think overall I'd ask what you want to get out of it personally. If you're looking for a business idea, I would be worried that if it makes a lot of money, github would just clone the best ideas and integrate it into their site. If you just want it to be a small money making side project, then that's probably fine.
If you're looking to do this as a personal project, I would focus on the most technically challenging and interesting parts. If you're looking to make some side money, do what is most popular. If you're trying to start a full time business...probably not enough $$$ and too easy to be copied by github.
I think it might be interesting to have some comparisons between similar projects.
How does CockroachDB compare to Cassandra? Should I pick Spark or Apache Beam?
It also might be interesting to see timeline of major contributors to various projects as well ( Did the founder of CouchDB leave and go start working on PostGres at one point).
However, because Open Source is often tied to large corporations or startups, I'm sure the system could be gamed, and I'm not sure how you don't get in the situation amazon is in, where some small startup pays to get review bombed so their database is ranked higher than everything else.
What about when someone angry at having their gmail broken decides to go rant about how terrible all the google open source projects are? That seems like a pain in the ass.
So I think overall I'd ask what you want to get out of it personally. If you're looking for a business idea, I would be worried that if it makes a lot of money, github would just clone the best ideas and integrate it into their site. If you just want it to be a small money making side project, then that's probably fine.
If you're looking to do this as a personal project, I would focus on the most technically challenging and interesting parts. If you're looking to make some side money, do what is most popular. If you're trying to start a full time business...probably not enough $$$ and too easy to be copied by github.