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Compile a field into a structured knowledge repo where every entry is tagged with an evidence level and source. Chinese first, but it can be replicated into legal, health insurance, or immigration guides, exam past papers, and subject knowledge graphs in any language. Open source reliably earns stars; the path to revenue hasn't appeared yet.
Open Watch · content-driven open-source repo (the barrier is editorial work, not code) First seen 2026-11-01 · last updated 2026-11-04
- Status
- Open (stars keep coming, derivative repos are growing; no revenue sample at all)
- Why now, and how long the window lasts
- AI has cut the time to systematically compile a field into a book or a map from years to weeks, while readers still trust sourced, graded, human-curated material (inference). Chinese internet lacks trustworthy structured resources on daily life and education, so GitHub has become a substitute publishing channel, and spread happens via WeChat and Xiaohongshu (none of the five X circles mentioned it). Don't chase events in this category. There are plenty of gaps: after cn-math, chemistry, history, and biology are all empty; for legal, health-insurance, and immigration guides, apart from Brazil, other languages are nearly empty.
- Confidence
- Medium (the star pattern shows 1 giants plus 6+ similar repos at 2,000–6,000 stars); the revenue side is low. What would overturn this: HowToLiveBetter's 11-15-day star gain falls below 7 500, and no new repos of the same type appear. What would upgrade it: the first product that earns money from this kind of repo (an app, mini-program, or print edition), at which point I'd switch to tracking.
Evidence
Grouped by store. Each group starts with the charts that can be graphed (real curves, data dates below the chart), then the scanner's original notes and source links.
GitHub5 evidence · 13 products with curves
GitHub · created 2026-09-07 · 74,193 stars · 7 days +2,313
A high-value life guide: longevity and disease prevention, first aid, saving and personal finance, legal red lines, unemployment and work injury, medical and social insurance, dating, marriage, pregnancy and parenting, starting a business and platform compliance, going abroad and skills. Every entry states cost, benefit, evidence grade, and the original source, citing only journal papers and official documents.
Data 2026-09-28 → 2026-11-08 (42 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-18 · 14,323 stars · 7 days +418
Full online single-page reading edition of all 528 entries in "High-Value Life Guide": mobile-friendly, searchable, zero dependencies, offline support
Data 2026-09-28 → 2026-11-08 (42 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-15 · 1,411 stars · 7 days +102
High-Value Life Guide · Overseas Edition: high-value study abroad. Scholarships abroad, tuition-free programs, government full scholarships, paid PhDs. Germany and Japan pay people to learn trades; US, Canada, and Australia scholarships get their own section. Not paying to go study abroad, but getting paid to go. 71 entries, citing official sources only. Follow the author: WeChat Channels, Becky在地球村
Data 2026-10-16 → 2026-11-08 (24 days, 24 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-29 · 248 stars · 7 days +35
Life Guide Library · High-Value Life Guide mini-program edition; includes 772 evidence-based entries from "High-Value Life Guide", 640 entries from "Guide to Human Relations", plus "High-Value Study Abroad Guide", "Guide to Avoiding Scams", "Guide to Life Upgrades", and "High-Value Career Guide". Full-text search, favorites, offline reading, and a daily read.
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 30 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-18 · 7,015 stars · 7 days +1,375
Knowledge graphs for math (primary to high school), English (grade 3 to high school), and junior-high physics: 1644 knowledge points, 2403 prerequisite edges, 6723 questions, aligned to the curriculum standards, with an adaptive prerequisite diagnostic.
Data 2026-10-19 → 2026-11-08 (21 days, 21 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-25 · 4,391 stars · 7 days +845
Word Atlas: Illustrated IELTS vocabulary with 7,298 words, UK/US audio, and FSRS review. Open-source app + CC BY 4.0 dataset.
Data 2026-10-26 → 2026-11-08 (14 days, 14 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-27 · 6,362 stars · 7 days +1,720
Chinese AI pose reference gallery · 1439 sets / 2878 images / fully localized · zero-dependency static gallery
Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-16 · 2,316 stars · 7 days +204
All of the 2016-2026 China civil service exam (national and provincial) Xingce questions
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
5 more products' curves
GitHub · created 2026-09-14 · 1,066 stars · 7 days +65
Deeply annotated notes on the reasoning and data analysis sections of 2016–2026 national, provincial, and joint exam Xingce questions, reorganized by topic
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 30 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-07-23 · 4,554 stars · 7 days +2,497
Jiangshan Timeline · Interactive China historical map timeline (403 BCE – present) | Interactive Historical Atlas of China across 18 dynasties, 164 territory snapshots, ancient-to-modern place genealogy &
Data 2026-10-21 → 2026-11-08 (19 days, 13 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-12 · 1,361 stars · 7 days +100
Fill in 10 basic details, filter the 71 visa / immigration routes down to the ones that fit you, and see what you're still missing
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
GitHub · created 2026-10-15 · 2,628 stars · 7 days +494
Todas as leis do Brasil
Data 2026-10-15 → 2026-11-08 (25 days, 25 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-28 · 1,850 stars · 7 days +476
The world's law in git: any provision, any country, any date, and the law that wrote each word.
Data 2026-10-31 → 2026-11-08 (9 days, 9 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
- GitHub (full-site snapshot, 11-02 verified): eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter "High-Value Life Guide" (longevity and disease prevention, first aid, saving money, legal red lines, medical and social insurance…; each entry states cost, benefit, evidence grade, and source, citing only journals and official documents). Created 09-07, 72,286 stars (report said 11-01 was 71,880); +7 in 3,349 days, +7 in the previous 3,217 days, and it still hasn't slowed down 56 days after creation; the 09-28 → 10-09 window gained 11 30,709; forks 8.8%, never posted on HN.
- GitHub (derivatives, 11-02 verified): single-page reading edition cdyforever/how-to-live-better 13,984 stars; overseas edition BeckyGlobal/PaidToStudyAbroad ("High-Value Study Abroad", 71 entries, citing only official documents) created 10-15, 1,342 stars; mini-program edition HuiTurn/HowToLiveBetter 219 stars. One content repo grew three kinds of derivatives (a reader, a mini-program, and an overseas edition) within 8 weeks.
- GitHub (Chinese same-type, 11-02 verified): xiaoyang111222/cn-math-taxonomy (knowledge graphs for primary/secondary math, English, and junior-high physics; 1,644 knowledge points, 6,723 questions), created 10-18, 5,840 stars, +2,201 in 7 days; designfuchen/word-atlas (IELTS vocabulary illustrations + FSRS review), created 10-25, 3,695 stars; anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh (pose reference gallery), created 10-27, 5,115 stars; ERRRC/xingcezhenti (2016–2026 national and provincial civil service Xingce questions), 2,147 stars, and the same author's ERRRC/kaogongzhentizhengliu, reorganized by topic, 1,007 stars.
- GitHub (Chinese same-type, continued, 11-02 verified): DeanChensj/jiangshan-map (interactive China historical map), 2,725 stars, +11-02 in a single day 668; RadishXN/run-abroad (fill in 10 details, filter the 71 visa / immigration routes), 1,286 stars, +7 in 760 days, and only +7 in the previous 16 days, so it was suddenly discovered.
- GitHub (non-Chinese same-type, 11-02 verified): ctresb/leis (all of Brazilian law), created 10-15, 2,224 stars; lexifina/global-law (each country's law as a git history), created 10-28, 1,555 stars.
Indie product revenue (TrustMRR)1 evidence · 2 products with curves
Get Brazil Visa getbrazilvisa.com
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $4,564 (+49%)
2026-01 → 2026-11 (10 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
CCAT Tests ccattests.com
TrustMRR · 30-day revenue $207 (−15%)
2025-11 → 2026-11 (13 pts). Light bars = current month, not yet complete
Data 2026-09-29 → 2026-11-06 (39 days, 39 observations). Single-day swings are big, so look at the trend in the monthly breakdown above.
- indie(11-02 searching visa / immigration / exam / evidence and similar terms): no product monetizing this kind of structured knowledge repository turns up. The ones with visible revenue are a different breed: single-country visa service sites (Get Brazil Visa $3,739/30 days) and exam question bank sites (CCAT Tests $207). None of them are open-source content.
Already doing it
HowToLiveBetter and its three derivatives, cn-math-taxonomy, word-atlas, xingcezhenti, run-abroad, jiangshan-map, ai-pose-gallery-zh, leis, and global-law, are all free. Book-style projects like bojieli/ai-infra-book (7,220) and LAMDA-NeSy/Research-Starter-Kit (9,416) follow this path too. The report lists Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu (a Zi Wei Dou Shu chart engine, 13,018) as a contemporary, but it was created 05-01 earlier, and it's a code engine, so it's only a loose match.
The hardest step
Accuracy and ongoing maintenance. Legal, health-insurance, and exam policies change every year. Once people see it as "AI-generated encyclopedia," reputation collapses. Second, monetization: this category currently earns stars, not money.
Who it's for
An individual who knows a field, has the editorial patience, and can work in a non-English language. Possible ways to earn: a paid app or mini-program edition, print editions, country-by-country update subscriptions. All of these are inference; there's no sample yet.
Should every product builder know this?
No. But the fact that a pure content repo can reach tens of thousands of stars and still grow derivatives is worth knowing for anyone working on developer content and community.
Change log
2026-11-04
Watchlist cluster "poses / drawing references": anhao/ai-pose-gallery-zh 8 days, 5,769 stars (1,469 forks), HRuiCcc/RuiC-PoseAtlas 1,126, paipiange/nvzhuang 2,119, sleepy-zone/ai-ref-library-cn 700, hongye007/open-pose-costume 529. Within 6–8 days, 5 Chinese AI image reference galleries appeared, each with 1,407 / 1,439 sets of images. They're clearly reskins of the same source dataset, and most licenses are NOASSERTION. Localizing an English material library can quickly earn stars, but the asset rights are unclear, so don't treat it as something you can charge for. Merged into this entry, not listed separately.
2026-11-02
Backfill check: HowToLiveBetter 71,880 → 72,286 (+7 in 3,349 days, flat versus the previous 7 days); jiangshan-map 2,057 → 2,725 (+668 in a single day); global-law 1,374 → 1,555; ai-pose-gallery-zh 4,642 → 5,115. Two new derivatives found: the overseas edition PaidToStudyAbroad 1,342 and the mini-program edition 219. ziwei-doushu was actually created in 05-01, not as a contemporary new repo.
2026-11-01
First recorded (backfill: from "GitHub New Opportunities (Batch 1)" §1.8, data as of 2026-11-01).
Original: Scanner opportunity library #054 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.