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Not promising: gray-area traffic for stars and downloads. Console game reverse-port cracks, jailbroken / free-model reverse proxies, the REA reverse-engineering craze, star-farming and bait repos, knockoff apps riding famous names.
Close Trackable (flip side) · looks hot but the traffic comes from infringement, terms violations, or star/download inflation First spotted 2026-11-01 · Last updated 2026-11-08
- Status
- Close (not recommended to follow: the stars and downloads are real, but they come from infringement, terms violations, or scams; repos get taken down and accounts banned, so the author gets no reputation or revenue that accumulates).
- Why this is written up
- On the GitHub star-gainers chart and the China-region tools chart, these are the fastest risers. When judging "what projects are popular" by stars, they are the biggest noise. DMCA takedowns for game ports are a certainty; cracking and reverse-proxying violate every model vendor's terms, leading to bans and repo removal (the existence of mirror repos is the evidence); bait repos are malware distribution. Echoing [010]: the DSH plugin ecosystem that [010] observed is led by this entry's dsh-our-free-model and dsh-purge, and this entry flags that category of gray plugins as "don't follow".
- Confidence
- High. Conditions that would overturn this (when it becomes doable for a small team): a console maker explicitly declines to pursue "recompilation tool layers that don't carry game assets," while decomp.wtf / PSPRecomp-style frameworks grow to thousands of stars with sponsorship income; or a model vendor officially opens a free quota plus a plugin revenue share, making "free model use" a legitimate distribution path. Then switch to looking at [010].
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.
GitHub4 evidence · 10 products with curves
GitHub · created 2026-10-13 · 13,307 stars · 7 days +2,705
Switch games running natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac: an NSP folder becomes an unsigned IPA (NSO rewriter, Horizon HLE host, NVN→Metal)
Data 2026-10-17 → 2026-11-08 (23 days, 23 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-08-03 · 52,001 stars · 7 days +1,891
Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows
Data 2026-09-28 → 2026-11-08 (42 days, 31 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-17 · 7,259 stars · 7 days +580
Play your own Tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild natively on Apple silicon Mac, iPhone and iPad. Not an emulator: the game's ARM64 code runs directly,
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 2026-10-29 · 5,641 stars · 7 days +3,138
Static recompilation of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to native Windows and Linux x86-64, with a Vulkan renderer. Game files not included.
Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-08 (10 days, 10 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-20 · 4,940 stars · 7 days +2,439
Play your own Switch games on iPhone/iPad — one-click macOS app, no terminal. | Put Switch games on iPhone: one-click build with a graphical interface, no command line. Bring your own game.
Data 2026-10-24 → 2026-11-08 (16 days, 16 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-10-01 · 3,953 stars · 7 days +153
Bloodborne (v1.09) running natively on Linux and Windows: the game's x86-64 code runs as is, GPU side translated to Vulkan; FSR 4 / DLSS, co-op (BBSC). Bring yo
Data 2026-10-02 → 2026-11-08 (38 days, 32 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
GitHub · created 2026-09-24 · 65,355 stars · 7 days +11,070
Just install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API key, and you can use frontier models including DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3. Completely free, unlimited. All you do is install this plugin in dsh: no login, no sign-up, no API k
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 2026-07-11 · 11,248 stars · 7 days +240
A Codex jailbreak prompt and test pack for GPT models.
Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 14 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one
2 more products' curves
GitHub · created 2026-09-12 · 4,745 stars · 7 days +95
Turn a Tencent WorkBuddy account into a multi-account gateway with an OpenAI-compatible API. It also auto-completes every task in the task center and ships a web admin panel (account pool view, points tasks, hot config reload). An enhanced fork of Sliverkiss/workbuddy2api.
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 2026-09-12 · 3,663 stars · 7 days +330
A multi-account reverse proxy gateway for WorkBuddy, international and domestic. Works with Codex / Claude Code / DSH and standard OpenAI clients.
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 (11-02 core): console game reverse-porting. seedds/nxnative (created 10-13, "turns NSP folders into IPA"), 10,886 stars, 7 days +7,153; boykopovar/AnyPS, 5 50,391 stars (7 days +2,247, status "cooling"); ly05010419/MacNativeGames 6,767 (cooling); valentderah/totk-pc-recomp (created 10-29), 3,083 stars, 1 days +580; LNPANDY/NX2Apple 2,664; deadinside28/bloodborne_pc 3,826 (cooling). Report: ≤120 days, 465 related repos; only about 30 of them have ≥500 stars, and almost all authors are new accounts with a single repo. The cluster already has repos saying "upstream is about to delete the repo, this is a full mirror."
- GitHub (11-02 core): jailbreaks / free models / account-pool proxies. Ebony-Vinyl/dsh-our-free-model 55,682 stars (7 days +12,962); YuJunZhiXue/dsh-purge 15,295 stars (7 days +6,531, forks 3,517); MDX-Tom/gpt-instruct (Codex jailbreak) 11,037; Tencent WorkBuddy account-pool proxies linguo2625469/workbuddy2api-panel 4,655, ardeyouxipianyi/workbuddy2api-hub 3,359, and at least 12 repos named workbuddy2api. Report: ≤120 days, 366 such repos.
- GitHub(REA,报告 11-01;11-02 复数):报告数是 09-28 那周新建 205 个带 REA / 逆向字样的库,到 11-01 只有 2 个过 500 星。我用更窄的正则复数(和报告口径不同,只看趋势):09-28 周 88 个 → 10-26 周 6 个,已经退潮。
- GitHub (star-farming and bait, 11-02 core): AhmadHassan-BTed's 30 repos gain a neat +150~200 every day. Turnitout-Humanizer ("bypass Turnitin") has 11,142 stars (report 10,703,1 days +439), with only 237 forks. Report: bait repos whose descriptions mention pre-activated / full working installer / aimbot / FPS booster, ≤120 days, 1,345 repos, 6.1% of the 19,887 repos added in the last 45 days. Using a simplified regex plural: 10-26 that week saw 336 new repos (previous week 34), and it's still accelerating.
App Store1 evidence items · 1 products with curves
Codex AI - Remote Codex Ariadni Deligianni
App Store · first launched 2026-06-30 · China rating 713 · charted in 11-08 of 11 stores
Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-01 (3 days, 3 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day
Data 2026-10-30 → 2026-11-01 (3 days, 3 observations)
- App Store (CN, 11-02 core): Codex AI - Remote Codex (6781323682, developer Ariadni Deligianni, first launched 06-30), CN Productivity free #40 (11-01 #35), CN rating 10-28 273 → 11-02 482. One-star review on 10-23: "Scam software, has nothing to do with OpenAI's Codex, got scammed and can't get the money back 398." Other name-riding clones include a Truecaller knockoff, Hp Smart App, and an unofficial Meshy AI 3D Generator (per report).
Already doing it
Game ports: nxnative, AnyPS5, MacNativeGames, SavageWindRecomp, totk-pc-recomp, Eglantine, bloodborne_pc, NX2Apple, ps2-web-recomp. Jailbreaks / proxies: dsh-our-free-model, dsh-purge and mirrors, gpt-instruct, jailbreaks, the workbuddy2api series, omnirush-gui, Agent2API, muse2api, codex-chatgpt-web. Star farming: AhmadHassan-BTed. Knockoffs: Codex AI - Remote Codex. On the tooling side, only decomp.wtf (546 stars), PSPRecomp, console-skill (197 stars), replica-skill (6,954 stars) and ghidra's red flags are worth borrowing from.
The hardest step
It's not a technical problem. The path has no endpoint: repos get deleted any time, accounts get banned any time, the authors are anonymous, and there's no reputation or money at the end.
Who it's for
Not for anyone who wants to build a reputation or income. If you ship products, treat it as noise to filter out when reading the star charts.
Should every product builder know this?
Yes. Essential for cleaning up the GitHub trending chart and the China-store tools chart. Bait repos are also a security risk.
Change log
2026-11-08
Newly over the line: NotRexed/Hookshot (3 days, 1,474 stars) and sostenesfreitas/ocarina-recomp (static recompilation of Ocarina of Time, 2 days, 679 stars). Lichii added +1,566 today. The port cluster has 7 projects today and is still growing.
2026-11-07
Newly qualified: smarkyie/NSP-Box (a Switch game package tool, 7 days, 508 stars). mmdoctor/google-pro-helper (2 days, 813 stars, 324 forks) and yesterday's Google_AI_Pro_2Year_ZeroCost_Auto belong to the same wave of "free Google AI Pro" scripts. Lichii +1,685 today.
2026-11-06
Newly qualified: worldonlyu/Google_AI_Pro_2Year_ZeroCost_Auto (2 days, 2,185 stars, 921 forks; going by the name, an automation script for getting a Google AI Pro subscription for free), which is also gray traffic. zortos293/Lichii +1,258 today.
2026-11-05
floci-io/floci +908 today. GitHub-wide, 7 days: fxgl/steamac (runs Valve's official ARM64 SteamOS on Apple Silicon in a lightweight VM; created 32 days ago, 2,061 stars, 7 days +1,253), horizon-rust/horizon (a Rust rewrite of Minecraft Java Edition) +2,741, Droid-Deck (SteamOS experience on Android) +2,030. The game cluster has widened from "porting single games" to "moving SteamOS onto other devices." The latter has no asset-copyright issue, so risk is a bit lower, but there's still no way to make money.
2026-11-03
The "emulators / game ports" cluster on the qualified list: 5 repos. Newly qualified: shirai91/nx2android (a compatibility layer for porting Switch games to Android one by one; 10 days, 662 stars). totk-pc-recomp +798 today, NX2Apple +309, still climbing. Also chris124567/cfsolve (Cloudflare verification cracking; 537 GitHub stars, HN 275 points), which is gray traffic too. Unchanged.
2026-11-02
Backfill check: nxnative 10,602 → 10,886 stars (7 days +7,153, still "accelerating"); dsh-our-free-model 54,285 → 55,682; dsh-purge 14,542 → 15,295; AnyPS5, MacNativeGames, bloodborne_pc, workbuddy2api-panel are all marked "cooling". No repos were deleted or archived. Codex AI cn Productivity free #35 → #40, score 464 → 482. The bait repo 10-26 created nearly 10 times as many new repos that week as the week before.
2026-11-01
First recorded (backfill from GitHub New Opportunities (Batch 1) §3.1, §3.2, §3.4, §3.6, and App Store New Opportunities (Batch 1) §3.7, Stringers §4; data as of 2026-11-01).
Original: Scanner opportunity library #079 (updated daily, 06:00); this page was generated on the 2026-11-08 edition.