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Finding a Project or Issue

Grainlify gives you four ways to find something to work on: a curated Discover feed, a filterable Browse catalog, a browsable Ecosystems directory, and global Search.

Discover​

Discover is what you land on after signing in. It shows:

  • Recommended Projects — active projects on Grainlify, surfaced by how many contributors they already have.
  • Recommended Issues — a sampling of open issues pulled from those projects.

Each project card shows its name, stars, forks, a short description, and its ecosystem. Each issue card shows the title, a short excerpt, a topic tag when one applies (like good first issue or bug), and the project's primary language — good for a quick scan before you click in.

Browse​

Browse is the full catalog of every project listed on Grainlify, with filters to narrow it down:

  • Language — TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust, Java
  • Ecosystem — the community or foundation a project belongs to
  • Category — Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, DevOps, Mobile
  • Tags — Good first issues, Open issues, Help wanted, Bug, Feature, Documentation

Combine filters to zero in — for example, Rust + Backend + Good first issues. Each result shows stars, forks, contributor count, and how many open issues and pull requests the project currently has.

Ecosystems​

Open Ecosystems in the sidebar for a directory of every community on Grainlify — usually a foundation, chain, or umbrella organization — as cards showing its logo, description, website, and how many contributors and projects it has.

Click into one to see:

  • Overview — stats (active contributors, projects, open issues and pull requests), an About section, key focus areas, and technologies
  • Projects — every project in that ecosystem, filterable by language and category

This is a good starting point if you already care about a specific community or chain and want to see everything it has to offer in one place, rather than filtering Browse down to it.

tip

Don't see the ecosystem you're looking for? The list is curated by the Grainlify team — reach out through the Grainlify GitHub org and we'll look into adding it.

Press Cmd/Ctrl+K anywhere in the dashboard (or open Search from the sidebar) to search projects, open issues, and contributors by name all in one place — useful when you already know roughly what you're looking for rather than browsing. Results link straight through: click a project to open it, an issue to open its apply page, or a contributor to view their profile.

Reading a project page​

Click into any project to see:

  • Its README, rendered straight from GitHub
  • Links to the live site and the GitHub repo
  • A language breakdown
  • Everyone currently contributing to it
  • Its full issue list, filterable by label
  • A recent activity feed of issues and pull requests

From here, click any open issue to go to its apply page. The project's owner also has their own public org page — click through from the project to see every project that owner maintains on Grainlify in one place.

A note on labels​

The tag you see on an issue (bug, enhancement, good first issue, and so on) comes directly from the labels the maintainer applied on GitHub — Grainlify doesn't add its own difficulty rating or estimate on top of it. When in doubt about how involved an issue is, the maintainer's labels and the issue description itself are the best signal.