
"I open-sourced Cloudflare": a Hong Kong dev's 3K stars, mostly from the Chinese-speaking dev community
What it is An open-source program that lets you run Cloudflare Workers code, unchanged, on your own server, with KV, D1, R2, and Durable Objects all included.
Why it blew up The author wrote a long post titled "I open-sourced Cloudflare" and pitched it to Ruan Yifeng's weekly and V2EX, so it spread in waves through the Chinese developer crowd. Compatibility is deep and it installs in under a minute, and the timing helped too: agent sandboxes are hot, and Cloudflare's acquisition of Deno made "self-hosted Workers" a hot topic.
BHow you could ride this Don't build yet another self-hosted Cloudflare. Instead, pick a platform developers love but fear being locked into, build an open-source alternative compatible with its official API, and use the "I open-sourced X" post formula, pitching to Ruanyf's weekly, V2EX, and OSCHINA.
- Data (updated daily) · Repo created 2026-08-23 · 3,125 stars · 7 days +459
GitHub · stars Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
A developer doing enterprise delivery in Hong Kong used Rust to pack the whole Cloudflare Workers stack into a program that runs on your own server, then gave it a title built to grab attention. Two and a half months later it has 3,070 stars. It never hit Hacker News, and few English-speaking devs mention it. Solid features are only half the reason; the other half is a promotion playbook that works well in the Chinese dev community, and anyone can copy it.
A long post with a provocative title
In Sep 2026 12, Elliot Hu published a bilingual long post on his blog titled "I open-sourced Cloudflare." It opens by attacking the industry, not the product: to run a 30-line JavaScript snippet for an agent, everyone spins up a Linux container, then bolts on Kubernetes, Redis, and an image cache. He calls this "infrastructure inflation." He then cites Cloudflare's own recent post, "Your agent needs a computer, not a container," arguing that Cloudflare itself admits lightweight isolation is right, but getting that experience means putting all your data on Cloudflare's cloud.
Then comes his project: a Rust program called ocd that "idles at about 60 MB of RAM; a single Chrome tab you open on your desktop uses more memory than that." One command gets it running on your own server in a minute. He notes it was "battle-tested in real B2B workloads in my company's production environment" before being open-sourced.
The repo gained 119 stars that day and ranked #9 on Trendshift's Rust chart (per Trendshift's daily data).
What it actually is
open-compute (github.com/elliothux/open-compute, Apache-2.0) is an open-source, self-hosted platform compatible with Cloudflare Workers. It covers the whole Cloudflare product suite in one program: Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Vectorize, AI Search, and more, with storage on SQLite plus local disk or S3.
The key is that it runs on workerd, the runtime Cloudflare open-sourced itself, not a homegrown one, and it implements Cloudflare's /client/v4 management API as well. So wrangler, the cf CLI, and official SDKs connect directly. The README's pitch: existing projects need zero code changes, just a new deployment target. It lists 18 products, its tests cover 2,256 API members, and 10 products are individually request-checked against real Cloudflare.
Who needs this? The author answers it himself: finance, government, and healthcare clients whose data can't leave the intranet, where any "it goes through an overseas public cloud" proposal gets killed by compliance, yet developers don't want to give up Cloudflare's way of writing code.
How the stars climbed
The repo was created on Aug 23, v0.1.0 shipped in Sep 5, and by Oct 31 it had shipped 0.4.0 versions in total, reaching v18. As of Nov 6 it had 3,070 stars and 93 forks (GitHub). The biggest-gain days line up with specific events:
| Date | Stars gained that day | What happened those days |
|---|---|---|
| 9-12 | +119 | Author publishes "I open-sourced Cloudflare" |
| 9-13 | +100 | Long post keeps spreading |
| 9-16 to 9-18 | about 40 per day | LinkedIn post (48 reactions), X launch post (77 likes, 38.6K views) |
| 10-04 to 10-09 | from 40 per day rising to 125 | 10-04 The author posts on V2EX (2,159 views) and pitches Ruanyf's weekly the same day; 10-09 Cloudflare announces it is acquiring Deno |
| 10-15 | +209 | Included in issue #414 of Ruan Yifeng's "Tech Enthusiast Weekly" |
| 10-23 | +287 | Source not found; several Chinese reposts appeared in those days |
| 10-24 to 11-06 | 50 to 150 per day, slowly fading | No single event |
(Trendshift daily star counts; author's X, LinkedIn, and V2EX pages)
Over the last 7 days it gained 548, versus 7 in the prior 1,037 days, so momentum is fading. It has never made GitHub's daily trending list.
Where users came from: almost entirely Chinese channels
Self-submitted. Oct 4 submitted the Ruan Yifeng weekly himself, as a GitHub issue. Issue 414 placed it at #15 with a one-line pitch: "An open-source, Cloudflare Workers-compatible platform that lets worker scripts run on your own machine without modification." Stars jumped 209 the day the issue went out, the biggest single push I could find. The V2EX post was also self-published. Commenters said "I saw it on xhs first, then here," and someone mentioned a HN weekly, but I couldn't find the original posts for either.
Reposted. OSCHINA featured it in Oct 13, and afterward a stream of Chinese aggregator and AI-rewrite sites kept reposting its description, at least five or six articles in late October. It's impossible to split out how many stars each drove, but the late-October wave had no single source and looks like the long tail adding up (inference).
Almost no English-language traction. It never hit Hacker News, there were no real posts on English X, and the author's X account, apart from the launch post, mostly had single-digit likes. Compare the similar OpenWorkers: it scored 500 points on Hacker News in January, yet its repo has only a couple hundred stars so far. HN buzz doesn't translate into stars; Chinese weeklies and communities pull people into the repo far more effectively.
Why this one
The title borrows a giant's name. "I open-sourced Cloudflare" travels far better than "self-hosted Workers runtime." Chinese developers have complicated feelings about Cloudflare, calling it "cyber bodhisattva" and "great benefactor," while also fearing lock-in and account bans. The title hits both feelings.
The project is real. Running on stock workerd, compatible with the official management API, with 18 products and 2,256 API members tested, these numbers sit right in the README. It merged 61 PRs in 92 days (Trendshift). When people click through, it doesn't look like a toy, so they're willing to star it.
Almost no effort to get started. The README's first install method is a prompt that tells Claude Code or Codex to install it following llms.txt. There are also Chinese docs and a console.
Good timing. In September Cloudflare itself was talking about "agents need a computer," and in Oct 9 Cloudflare acquired Deno, saying it would make "self-hosted workerd" a first-class citizen. English-language writing about "how to self-host Workers" quickly followed. open-compute's October wave came right after. The timing lines up, but causation can't be proven.
Who it's competing with
| Project | Scale | How open-compute differs |
|---|---|---|
| cloudflare/workerd | 9.1k star | Official only open-sources the runtime, with no control plane or routing; Durable Objects are single-instance only |
| denoland/celld | 6.2K stars, HN 286 points | Built by Deno; focuses on distributed Durable Objects; its own runtime with narrow compatibility; 10-09 onward under Cloudflare, which says it will merge into workerd, no date given |
| Miniflare / wrangler dev | 3.9k / 4.7k star | Official local emulator, not meant for production |
| OpenWorkers | HN 500 points, repo 239 stars | Homegrown Rust + V8 runtime, needs an external database, covers fewer products |
| TerseAI/durable-actors | 333 star | Only replaces Durable Objects |
| wdl-dev/wdl | 56 star | Also a multi-tenant platform built on stock workerd, closest in direction, but nobody promotes it |
| Cloudflare Void / OS | Official | Still runs on Cloudflare's own cloud, doesn't solve the data-can't-leave-the-intranet problem |
(GitHub stars and Hacker News scores, early November)
This path has no shortage of people, and Cloudflare itself (through the Deno team) has already entered. open-compute's current position is "the most complete compatibility, installed in one program." If the official self-hosted option actually ships, that position will get squeezed.
If it were you
The takeaway: Building a self-hosted Cloudflare from scratch makes no sense; the space is taken and the giant has arrived. What's worth copying is the playbook: pick a giant platform you can't do without but fear being locked into, build an open-source alternative that "moves to your own machine without changes," and promote it in the Chinese community with an "I open-sourced X" title.
Who it suits: Developers with strong engineering skills who can make a giant's proprietary API usable through compatibility in two or three months; ideally, like the author, you have a real intranet deployment need and can say it was "battle-tested in a client's production."
Who it doesn't suit: Anyone hoping to earn stars over a weekend or two. This project merged 92 PRs in 61 days, and the engineering effort is its real barrier. It's also a poor fit for platforms where the official side has already open-sourced everything, or where mature self-hosted alternatives already exist.
How to do it:
- Picking a target: a platform developers use heavily, that only runs on its own cloud, with lots of proprietary APIs, such as Vercel's edge functions and storage, parts of Firebase, or the agent runtimes of various AI platforms. First check GitHub for solid alternatives; if one has thousands of stars, pick a different target.
- Build on the official open-source base wherever possible, and make compatibility with the official management API and CLI thorough, so users' existing projects and tools connect directly. The deeper the compatibility, the better the title holds up.
- Put the numbers on the first screen of the README: how many products, how many API members, and the results of request-by-request comparisons against the real service; then add an "hand it to your AI agent" install prompt and
llms.txt. - One program, one command, running in a minute, with memory usage stated clearly.
How to get users: Follow its sequence. First write an opinionated long post, titled "I open-sourced X," opening with a problem everyone feels, in both Chinese and English. Then submit to Ruanyf's weekly (open an issue on ruanyf/weekly), post on V2EX, and submit to OSCHINA; these channels have low barriers and their effect shows on the star curve, often a hundred or two per hit. English audiences are worth a shot on Hacker News, but don't expect it to bring stars.
When to act: No rush; this playbook works on any platform. But if the platform you pick is already building a self-hosted option, you need to launch before the official version arrives (estimate).
What a misread looks like: the long post went out and the weekly picked it up, yet daily stars still stayed under 100, which suggests the big-name brand in the title isn't well known in Chinese dev circles, or the compatibility is too shallow for people to trust it on click. One more signal: once Cloudflare folds celld into workerd and ships an official self-hosting path, open-compute's daily growth will drop off, and entering the category at that point is too late.
Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report
- Competitors
Name Where Launched Scale How it differs from this one cloudflare/workerd Open source 2022-09 9.1k stars Official only open-sourced the runtime, with no control plane, routing, or scheduling, and DO runs as a single instance; open-compute builds the whole platform on top of it denoland/celld (Deno, moved to Cloudflare from 10-09) Open source 2026-08 6.2k stars, HN 286 points Focused on distributed Durable Objects with a homegrown V8 layer and narrow compatibility; official plan is to merge into workerd, no date given OpenWorkers Open source 2026-01 HN 500 points, runner repo 239 stars Homegrown Rust+V8 runtime that needs an external database and covers few products; it blew up on HN but didn't turn into stars Miniflare / wrangler dev Open source 2021 3.9k / 4.7k stars Official local emulator, not meant for production TerseAI/durable-actors Open source 2026-08 333 stars, HN 53 points Only replaces DO wdl-dev/wdl Open source 2026-06 56 stars Multi-tenant platform also built on stock workerd, with multi-replica failover, but it never spread Cloudflare Void / Cloudflare OS Big-company features 2026-10 Official Still deployed on CF's cloud, so it can't solve keeping data inside the intranet supabase/edge-runtime Open source 2023 1.0k stars Built on Deno, API not compatible with CF - Where users come from
- Verified Author's own long post (Chinese and English): elliothu.me "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare" 2026-09-12, same day Trendshift +119, Rust chart #9
- Verified Ruan Yifeng's Tech Weekly: author 10-04 self-submitted ruanyf/weekly#12062, featured in issue 414, 10-15 +209
- Verified V2EX: v2ex.com/t/1246382,10-04,2,159 with views; commenters mention seeing it on Xiaohongshu and in an HN weekly digest
- Verified Chinese aggregators and rewrite sites: OSCHINA (10-13), 80aj, aiproducthub, zendot, Dajia Youxuan ×5, Fanrui Gaolian
- Verified Author's X and LinkedIn: X launch post 77 likes / 38.6k views (9-18); LinkedIn 48 reactions (9-16)
- Inferred Platform event: Deno joins Cloudflare: 10-09 HN 1,391 points, self-hosted Workers topic heated up, timing lines up with October's second growth wave
- Inferred Xiaohongshu: only a V2EX comment saying "saw it on xhs"; original post not found
open-compute (elliothux/open-compute): why it took off
Research date 2026-11-06. Channel: GitHub. Data card recall score 76.
One line
open-compute packs the whole Cloudflare Workers platform (Workers, KV, D1, R2, Durable Objects, Queues, Workflows, Cron, Cache, Vectorize, AI Search, and a dozen-plus other products, plus Cloudflare's /client/v4 management API) into a single Rust binary ocd. It runs stock workerd underneath, uses SQLite with local or S3 storage, and can be deployed on one machine in about a minute. The author, Elliot Hu, is based in Hong Kong and works on China ToB/FDE delivery. It caught on mainly through Chinese developer circles: the author posted the long post and a V2EX thread titled "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare," it got picked up by Ruan Yifeng's weekly, and it spread from there. The "agent sandbox" topic and the sudden popularity of "self-hosted Workers" after Deno joined Cloudflare in Oct 9 also helped. Almost nobody on HN or English X talked about it.
1. Data: how the stars grew
- Repo created 2026-08-23. v0.1.0 was published by 2026-09-05; 10-31 has 0.4.0 versions in total up to v18 (GitHub releases). As of 2026-11-06: 3,070 stars, 93 forks, 24 watchers (GitHub API).
- Our GitHub repo data (repo_day): 10-28 had 2,345 stars, 11-06 had 3,010 stars. Over the last 7 days it gained 548, and over the 7 days before that it gained 1,037, so it's cooling.
- Note: the source for 10-28 data in our DB before that date was "deeply", which is noisy. For example 10-23 was recorded as −569 and 10-24 as +376; these are collection artifacts, not real star losses. The "single-day peak 10-24 +376" in the data card should not be used.
- Trendshift daily data (trendshift.io/repositories/208524,9-07 to 11-06, net +3,381 stars). A few spikes: | Date (UTC) | Stars gained | Same-period events | |---|---|---| | 9-12 | +119 (Trendshift Rust chart #9) | The author published a long-form post in Chinese and English, "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare" (elliothu.me). Several English automated review-site articles appeared the same day (istarsoft, discoverstack, etc.) | | 9-13 | +100 (Rust #13) | Same as above, still building | | 9-16 / 9-18 | About 40 per day on average | The author's LinkedIn post (48 reactions); the author's first X post "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare" (77 likes, 38.6k views) | | 10-04 to 10-09 | 40 → 125 per day | On 10-04 the author posted on V2EX (2,159 views), and the same day submitted to Ruan Yifeng's weekly newsletter (ruanyf/weekly#12062); 80 aj.com, aiproducthub and zendot followed up with articles; 10-09 Cloudflare announced it was acquiring Deno | | 10-15 | +209 (Rust #11) | Featured in Ruan Yifeng's Weekly Tech Enthusiast newsletter, issue 414 (tool #15; published Friday morning Beijing time) | | 10-23 | +287 (Rust #7) | Trigger not confirmed. From 10-19 to 10-23 several Chinese AI-rewritten articles ran (大家优选 ×4, 凡瑞高联, etc.); there may also have been WeChat Official Account or Xiaohongshu reposts | | 10-24 to 11-06 | 50–150 per day, slowly tapering | No single event found; looks like a long tail from multiple Chinese sources |
- No record of it charting on GitHub-wide or per-language daily trending (our repo has trending_days_any=0, which only covers from 10-28 onward).
2. Competitors: who else builds "self-hosted Cloudflare Workers"?
| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from open-compute |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cloudflare/workerd | Open source (official) | 2022-09 | 9.1k stars | Just the runtime. Cloudflare itself admits few people use it, and DO runs as a single instance. open-compute fills in the "platform layer" on top of it. |
| Miniflare / wrangler dev | Open source (official) | 2021 | 3.9k stars (miniflare) / 4.7k stars (workers-sdk) | Local development emulator, not meant for production, with no control plane or multi-instance support |
| denoland/celld | Open source (Deno, now part of Cloudflare) | 2026-08 public | 6.2k stars; HN 286 points (2026-08-05) | Focused on distributed Durable Objects, implemented on its own V8, not workerd. 10-09 Deno joined Cloudflare, and the official line is to merge celld into workerd, but no date given. The author's reply on V2EX: celld takes the distributed DO route with narrow compatibility; open-compute reproduces the whole platform one-to-one. |
| OpenWorkers | Open source + hosted | 2026-01-01 Show HN | HN 500 points / 158 comments; openworkers-runner has only 239 stars | Homegrown Rust + V8 runtime that needs infrastructure like Postgres, with a small product surface (fetch, KV, etc.) |
| TerseAI/durable-actors | Open source | 2026-08 | 333 stars; HN 53 points | Only a DO replacement |
| wdl-dev/wdl | Open source | 2026-06 | 56 stars | Multi-tenant platform built on stock workerd with multi-replica failover; closest in direction, but it never took off |
| ryuzcorp/noite, joelhooks/alchemy-celld | Open source | 2026-09/10 | 35 / 57 stars | PaaS and deployment packages wrapped around celld |
| supabase/edge-runtime | Open source | 2023 | 1.0k stars | Built on Deno, API not compatible with CF |
| Cloudflare Void, Cloudflare OS | Big-company features | 2026-10 | Official | Still deployed on Cloudflare's own cloud, so it can't solve "data never leaves the intranet" |
| Coolify, Dokploy, and other general-purpose self-hosted PaaS | Open source | — | Tens of thousands of stars | Container-based; doesn't offer the Workers programming model or the KV/D1/R2/DO bindings |
Bottom line: this direction isn't short on builders, and Cloudflare itself (the Deno team) has officially entered. open-compute's position is the most complete compatibility surface, a single binary, and a full platform that works out of the box.
3. Where users come from (growth levers)
- The author wrote a long post with a bold title (confirmed): the same title in Chinese and English, "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare / 我把 Cloudflare 开源了", posted 2026-09-12. The piece riffed on Cloudflare's official "Your agent needs a computer, not a container" narrative, griped about "infrastructure inflation," and claimed "60MB of memory is lighter than a single Chrome tab." It gained +119 that day.
- V2EX (confirmed): posted by 2026-10-04, 2,159 views. Commenters say "saw it on xhs first, then here" and "it was in an HN weekly digest," showing it also spread through Xiaohongshu and an HN-weekly-style channel (original posts on those two not found).
- Ruan Yifeng's "Tech Enthusiast Weekly" (confirmed): the author self-nominated, it was included in issue 414 (10-04), and it brought +209 that day. This is the biggest single boost I could find.
- Chinese aggregators and rewrite sites (confirmed to exist, traffic brought not verified): OSCHINA coverage (10-13), 80aj, aiproducthub, zendot, Dajia Youxuan (at least 5 articles between 10-19 and 11-02), Fanrui Gaolian, CSDN, and more. On the English side there are automated review sites such as istarsoft, hysenlabs, discoverstack, and reveneau, plus a YouTube "Fit Check" video.
- Author's social accounts (confirmed, but low impact): the X launch post from @elliothux got 77 likes and 38.6k views, while the rest of his posts mostly have single-digit likes; LinkedIn 48 reactions. The only Chinese KOL reshares found came from small accounts (@becool_me with 3 likes, @xiuyuanAI with 2 likes).
- A platform event brought the topic up (timing lines up, causation not verified): 10-09 Cloudflare acquired Deno (1,391 HN points), and the official statement that self-hosting workerd would become a first-class option was followed on the English side by a batch of "how to self-host Workers" articles (groundy, codegangsta, scalarloop). open-compute's October second growth wave came right after.
- HN and English X didn't push it: our HN database has no open-compute story at all (Show HN posts get indexed regardless of points); x-radar's local corpus finds nothing; a live X English search turns up no substantial posts either.
4. Why it took off
- Easy to explain in one line, with a bold title: "I Open-Sourced Cloudflare" travels far better than "self-hosted Workers runtime." Chinese developers both love and fear Cloudflare (the "cyber bodhisattva / great benefactor" image, plus worries about lock-in and account bans), and the title hits that nerve (see the V2EX post and Xiuyuan's post).
- Turns a real pain point into a story: in ToB/FDE delivery, finance, government, and healthcare data must stay inside the intranet, yet developers still want CF's development experience. The author says it has already been battle-tested in client production, which adds credibility.
- Compatibility goes deeper than anyone else's: it runs the stock workerd binary and implements Cloudflare's
/client/v4management API, so wrangler, the cf CLI, and the official SDKs all connect directly. It covers 18 products, tracks 2,256 API members in tests, and compares 10 products request-by-request against real CF (README). OpenWorkers and celld both write their own runtimes, with narrower compatibility. - Built for the Agent era: the first install method in the README is a prompt you paste into Claude Code or Codex, telling it to install from llms.txt. There are also Chinese docs and a dashboard.
- The engineering is solid: 92 PRs merged and 18 releases shipped in 61 days (Trendshift, GitHub releases). The README badges (2,256 API members, verified workerd fork) make it look like a serious project, which matters a lot for getting stars.
- Timing: agent sandboxes (Cloudflare's "agent needs a computer", cloudflare/computer at 9.8k stars) plus Deno joining Cloudflare, both happening between 9 and October, made "self-hosted Workers" a hot topic.
5. Differentiation
Rival products either only do the runtime (workerd, OpenWorkers' own runtime), only do Durable Objects (celld, durable-actors), or run on CF's cloud (Void, OS). open-compute is the only one that packages stock workerd + the full set of bindings + the CF management API + a console as a single binary. The pitch: existing projects run unchanged, you just switch the deploy target.
The differentiation is one reason it took off, but not the main one. The data shows OpenWorkers got 500 points on HN yet has only a couple hundred stars; open-compute never made HN and reached 3k stars. The gap came mainly from Chinese-channel tactics (viral headlines, V2EX, Ruan Yifeng's weekly, aggregator sites). Broad feature coverage then made it look worth starring once people saw it.
6. Visibility
It's spreading within small circles. It has some name recognition among Chinese developers (Ruan Yifeng's weekly, V2EX, OSCHINA, Xiaohongshu), but it never made HN, nobody big wrote about it in English, and the author's own X following is small. As an open-source project, there's no public revenue.
VII. Copycats
I found no project directly copying it. Competing projects in the same space include wdl-dev/wdl (56 stars), ryuzcorp/noite (35 stars), and joelhooks/alchemy-celld (57 stars), but they follow celld more than open-compute. A batch of Chinese content-farm sites keep rewriting its intro.
8. What others can borrow
- A "I open-sourced X" style conflict headline works well in the Chinese tech community. Submitting to Ruan Yifeng's weekly, sharing in V2EX's maker section, and posting to OSCHINA has a low bar, and the effect is measurable (about +200 stars from this round).
- "Compatible with a big company's private API" is a natural distribution lever: users already know the API, migration cost is low, and the big company's name goes right in the title.
- Put an "let your AI agent install it" prompt and an llms.txt in the README so onboarding cost is close to zero.
- Build trust with numeric badges and a compatibility matrix (2,256 members, request-by-request comparison).
9. What I'm still unsure about
- The specific source of the +287 on 10-23 (possibly a WeChat Official Account, Xiaohongshu, or a newsletter) wasn't found.
- A V2EX comment says it "made the HN weekly digest", but which digest wasn't verified.
- The original Xiaohongshu post and its author and engagement numbers weren't found (TikHub keyword search doesn't return them).
- Star quality: GitHub doesn't return the stargazer list in this environment (celld has the same problem), so accounts can't be sampled. The fork and watcher ratios are low (forks about 3%, 24 watchers), so real usage can't be judged.
- If Cloudflare or Deno ship an official self-hosted option (celld folded into workerd), open-compute's room could get squeezed.
Sources
- GitHub: github.com/elliothux/open-compute (README, releases, API 2026-11-06); author profile github.com/elliothux
- Trendshift:trendshift.io/repositories/208524
- Author's articles: elliothu.me/blog/zh/open-sourcing-cloudflare, elliothu.me/blog/en/open-sourcing-cloudflare (2026-09-12)
- V2EX:v2ex.com/t/1246382(2026-10-04)
- Ruan Yifeng's weekly: github.com/ruanyf/weekly/issues/12062; docs/issue-414.md
- LinkedIn:linkedin.com/posts/elliot-hu_opensource-serverless-cloudcomputing-activity-7506086968745906176-LJkZ
- X:x.com/elliothux/status/2100935462680752511;x.com/becool_me/status/2107216186173685878;x.com/xiuyuanAI/status/2108806226280960466
- OSCHINA: oschina.net/p/open-compute; 80aj.com/2026/10/04/open-compute-rust-serverless/; dajiayouxuan.com/21770.html and others
- Deno/Cloudflare: HN "Cloudflare acquires Deno" 1,391 points (our hackernews library); groundy.com 2026-10-13 article
- Competitors: our github library repo_profile (2026-11-06); HN library (OpenWorkers 500 points, Celld 286 points, durable-actors 53 points)
- Our github library repo_day (starting 10-28; earlier data came from deeply and is noisy)