I built side-project helps you find cool open source projects and join them

tldr; Tool that let you find latest GH issues meant for newcomers and help you start contributing to the open-source

link: https://justcontribute.netlify.app

Motivation

For some time I was thinking about joining some open-source project. I believe that's is a huge opportunity to gain some experience in real-life projects.

But I was struggling in finding projects I can join. I'm a beginner so I was looking for some small less popular repos. It wasn't too easy, because I needed to browse GH typing some long weird queries, checking is there any open issue that I can handle, etc.

My solution

I created site that let you provide programming language and popularity of issue that you want to get and it presents you issues that:

• are open
• have at least one of the "newcomers welcoming" label (good first issue, up for grab, easy, etc)
• doesn't have linked pull request
• no one is assigned to them
• conversation is unlocked
• are in public repos

Tech stack

Front-end: react, scss
Back-end: node, express js

I built this whole thing in just 2 days so if you have any suggestions, feedback, or getting some errors please let me know in comments!