{"slug": "find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet", "title": "Find an Open-Source Issue Nobody Has Claimed Yet", "summary": "A developer built Hacktoberfest Starter, an open-source Streamlit app that matches developers to GitHub issues based on their skills and proficiency levels, filtering out issues that appear already claimed or unsuitable. The tool uses AI-assisted analysis to rank candidate issues so contributors spend less time searching and more time contributing.", "body_md": "*This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05)*\n\nFinding a good first issue on GitHub is easy. Finding one that is **actually unassigned, relevant to your skills, and worth contributing to** is much harder.\n\nI built **Hacktoberfest Starter** to help developers find open-source issues that are actually available to work on.\n\nYou add your skills and proficiency levels, and the app searches for relevant issues, filters out issues that appear to be already claimed or unsuitable, and helps you identify the issues that are a good match.\n\nThe goal is simple: **spend less time scrolling through GitHub and more time actually contributing to open source.**\n\n[https://hacktoberfest-starter-xyz.streamlit.app/](https://hacktoberfest-starter-xyz.streamlit.app/) \n\n[https://github.com/Adii0906/hacktoberfest-starter](https://github.com/Adii0906/hacktoberfest-starter)\n\nI built the project around GitHub issue discovery and AI-assisted analysis.\n\nThe workflow takes a developer's skills and proficiency levels, finds potentially relevant open-source issues, analyzes the results, and ranks them so the developer can focus on issues that actually match their experience.\n\nThe main idea was to make issue discovery more intelligent than simply searching GitHub for `good first issue`.\n\nThe project was built with open-source tools and AI-assisted development, with the AI layer helping analyze and organize issue data into useful recommendations.\n\nOpen source is one of the easiest ways to learn by building with real projects, but getting started can be intimidating.\n\nThere are thousands of issues across GitHub, and beginners often don't know which ones are genuinely available or suitable for their skill level.\n\nThis project itself is open source because I want other developers to be able to improve the way issues are discovered, ranked, and matched.\n\nThe same community that contributes to open-source projects can also improve the tool that helps people find those projects.\n\nNot included.\n\nOpen-Source AI Challenge — Week 1: Touch Grass", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/spliot_s_0d00efb657433a33/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet-2i64", "published_at": "2026-10-06 04:00:39+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 04:18:07.891794+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["GitHub", "Hacktoberfest Starter", "Streamlit", "Hacktoberfest"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/find-an-open-source-issue-nobody-has-claimed-yet.jsonld"}}