OSS Growth Attribution

Produce an auditable growth reconstruction, not a generic marketing checklist.

Workflow

1. Resolve the canonical repository and validate it against the product domain.
2. Fetch GitHub repository metadata, releases, earliest commits, and timestamped stargazers.
3. Build a star timeline with daily resolution around spikes and monthly resolution elsewhere.
4. Search GitHub Trending, Reddit, Hacker News, Product Hunt, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, developer media, technical blogs, and localized communities.
5. Extract original content URLs; never substitute search-result URLs when an original URL is available.
6. Normalize items to the evidence schema.
7. Align publication times with star velocity using the attribution model.
8. Divide history into preparation, community seed, accumulation, breakout, localization/SEO, and ecosystem stages. Omit unsupported stages.
9. Report representative content per channel with hook, format, audience, funnel role, and original link.
10. List channels searched but not evidenced. Absence of public evidence is not proof an event never happened.

Source priority