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The terminal is not a search engine over GitHub. It is a curated board of projects, people, and research, each carrying a score and a set of signals. Almost everything worth knowing is in what those signals mean — so this guide spends most of its length there, and only a little on where the buttons are.
Discover is where the terminal opens, and it needs nothing from you — no filters, no watchlist, no setup. Pick the ranking that matches how you think: conviction rising, money already in, stars accelerating, or people open to work.
Clicking a row opens the full profile — the score breakdown, the contributors, the funding history, the network. This is the point where the number stops being a number and becomes something you can argue with.
The star is the only thing you have to do by hand, and it is what turns the product from a browser into a monitor. On your next visit, the Watchlist opens with what changed since you left.
Ranked lists rebuilt against the latest data: biggest score increases, recently funded, fastest star growth, newly added, builders open to work, and the strongest research of the week. GitHub Trending sits alongside them as a free reference point.
Go here when: You have ten minutes and no specific question.
Opens on four shelves — Ex-Tier 1 Teams, Enterprise Pull, Already Funded, Hyper Growth — each a different reason a repo might matter. "View list" turns any shelf into the full, filterable, sortable list.
Go here when: You are working the pipeline rather than browsing it.
Five shelves read as a ladder: Under the Radar, Founders & Founding Engineers, Big Tech Alumni, Academia Talents, and Active and Open to Work — undiscovered, already founding, just left, deep research, reachable today.
Go here when: You want people, not repositories.
A ranked list of recent research. One lens is ours alone: papers whose authors are also builders we already follow on GitHub — the point where research and shipped code overlap.
Go here when: You want to see a technology before it has a repository.
Everything you star lands here. "What's New" compares the current numbers against your last visit and tells you what moved. Add notes, pin rows, sort things into your own groups. Anything you submit is grouped separately, and stays private to you.
Go here when: You want the terminal to report to you instead of the other way round.
Plan and billing, privacy, and workspace configuration.
Go here when: You are changing your plan or checking what your account can reach.
What each badge tells you. You do not have to memorise any of it — in the terminal, hovering or tapping a badge explains it in place, where you are looking at it.
Projects → the Already Funded or Enterprise Pull shelf, then "View list".
Sort by score and read the Action column first — Skip rows are already filtered out of your attention.
Open one and check the contributors and the funding history before the score. The score is a ranking device; the team is the decision.
Talents → Active and Open to Work, or Big Tech Alumni if you want people who have just left a major.
Under the Radar is the contrarian shelf — strong builders the market has not noticed yet.
Open the profile and read the network section — shared projects and shared employers are warmer paths than a cold message.
Star ten things you genuinely care about — fewer is better than more.
Come back in a week and read only "What's New" in the Watchlist. It diffs the current numbers against your last visit.
Add a one-line note to each row while the reason is fresh. In a month it is the only thing that still explains why you starred it.
The free tier is a real working slice, not a demo. Its limits apply after your filter and sort — so changing the sort changes which rows you see, and the list moves as the data does.
Vista is invite-only while we are in beta. Pro is granted with the invitation, not sold.