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class="leading-16">Star History Monthly Pick | April 2023</h1></div><div class="w-full mt-8 mb-2 max-w-6xl px-2 flex flex-row items-center justify-center text-sm text-gray-900 font-semibold trackingwide uppercase"><div class="flex space-x-1 text-gray-500"><span class="text-gray-900">Mila</span><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><time dateTime="2023-05-30T09:50:06.000Z">May 30, 2023</time><span aria-hidden="true"> · </span><span> 3 min read </span></div></div><div class="mt-8 w-full max-w-5xl prose prose-indigo prose-xl md:prose-2xl"><p>AI is still the trend of April. But amidst the AICG wave, we still managed to locate some interesting projects that are not directly related to ChatGPT / LLM / AI / ML, kudos to us!</p> <h2>Azimutt</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/azimutt.webp" alt="azimutt"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/azimuttapp/azimutt">Azimutt</a> is an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) targeting real world database schema, and they are usually big & messy.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/azimutt-erd.webp" alt="azimutt-erd"></p> <p>The problem with existing database table tools:</p> <ul> <li>Traditional ERDs always show everything. When you have more than 50 tables, they are useless.</li> <li>Data catalogs are primarily focused on data governance and lineage in big data sector.</li> </ul> <p>Azimutt was originally built to simply help developers understand the relational databases behind their applications more easily, but has now evolved to design, explore, document, and analyze databases.</p> <h2>Ballerine</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/ballerine.webp" alt="ballerine"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/ballerine-io/ballerine">Ballerine</a> is an open-source startup focused on user risk decisioning infrastructure that helps banks or Fintech companies automate their decisions for customer and business account-opening (KYC, KYB). They actually just <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/ballerine-brings-open-source-to-banks-risk-and-identity-decision-making/">announced</a> a $5 million seed round of funding last week.</p> <p>Financial institutions, for example, certainly want to onboard new customers at a minimal cost, but they also have to find a balance between speed and their responsibility to relevant regulations to ensure there is no fraud, and Ballerine is here to help them do that smoothly.</p> <p>Their <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33396982">debut on HN</a> was also a big success (although there is a certain randomness in being on the HN frontpage, but we do love the creativity of the title)</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/ballerine-hn.webp" alt="ballerine-hn"></p> <h2>Linen</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/linen.webp" alt="linen"></p> <p><a href="https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev">Linen</a> is a search engine friendly community chat tool that can be used as an alternative to Discord or Slack.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/linen-site.webp" alt="linen-site"></p> <p>SEO-friendly is obviously helpful for many communities, but the idea of a chat tool being indexed by Google got some folks <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718417#35722214">alerted</a>. Whether "Google searchable" is a brilliant idea or not remains to be seen.</p> <h2>Plane</h2> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/plane.webp" alt="plane"></p> <p><a href="http://github.com/makeplane/plane">Plane</a> is the open-source Jira/Linear alternative.</p> <p>The UI doesn't look far off from other PM tools, but they have incorporated OpenAI capabilities. For example, you can use AI to generate descriptions for your issues.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/plane-ui.webp" alt="plane-ui"></p> <h2>Twitter Algorithm</h2> <p>Finally, of course, let's not not forget <a href="http://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm">Twitter's algorithm</a>, open-sourced on April Fool's. It got ~30k Stargazers on the first day alone.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/twitter.webp" alt="twitter"></p> <p>In addition to Elon's own warm-up on his social media, the hype is also high because the recommendation ranking algorithm for most companies is top secret. This is definitely a first🤫.</p> <p>However, things are changing at lightning speed at Twitter Engineering⚡️. They have made changes to the algorithm already, marketers, make sure you are up to speed.</p> <p><img src="/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/twitter-algorithm.webp" alt="twitter-algorithm"></p> <h2>Last but not least</h2> <p>That's it for April. As promised, almost no AI-related content! 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But amidst the AICG wave, we still managed to locate some interesting projects that are not directly related to ChatGPT / LLM / AI / ML, kudos to us!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAzimutt\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/azimutt.webp\" alt=\"azimutt\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/azimuttapp/azimutt\"\u003eAzimutt\u003c/a\u003e is an Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) targeting real world database schema, and they are usually big \u0026amp; messy.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/azimutt-erd.webp\" alt=\"azimutt-erd\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe problem with existing database table tools:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraditional ERDs always show everything. When you have more than 50 tables, they are useless.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eData catalogs are primarily focused on data governance and lineage in big data sector.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAzimutt was originally built to simply help developers understand the relational databases behind their applications more easily, but has now evolved to design, explore, document, and analyze databases.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBallerine\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/ballerine.webp\" alt=\"ballerine\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/ballerine-io/ballerine\"\u003eBallerine\u003c/a\u003e is an open-source startup focused on user risk decisioning infrastructure that helps banks or Fintech companies automate their decisions for customer and business account-opening (KYC, KYB). They actually just \u003ca href=\"https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/23/ballerine-brings-open-source-to-banks-risk-and-identity-decision-making/\"\u003eannounced\u003c/a\u003e a $5 million seed round of funding last week.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinancial institutions, for example, certainly want to onboard new customers at a minimal cost, but they also have to find a balance between speed and their responsibility to relevant regulations to ensure there is no fraud, and Ballerine is here to help them do that smoothly.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33396982\"\u003edebut on HN\u003c/a\u003e was also a big success (although there is a certain randomness in being on the HN frontpage, but we do love the creativity of the title)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/ballerine-hn.webp\" alt=\"ballerine-hn\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eLinen\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/linen.webp\" alt=\"linen\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/linen-dev/linen.dev\"\u003eLinen\u003c/a\u003e is a search engine friendly community chat tool that can be used as an alternative to Discord or Slack.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/linen-site.webp\" alt=\"linen-site\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSEO-friendly is obviously helpful for many communities, but the idea of a chat tool being indexed by Google got some folks \u003ca href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35718417#35722214\"\u003ealerted\u003c/a\u003e. Whether \u0026quot;Google searchable\u0026quot; is a brilliant idea or not remains to be seen.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003ePlane\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/plane.webp\" alt=\"plane\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://github.com/makeplane/plane\"\u003ePlane\u003c/a\u003e is the open-source Jira/Linear alternative.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe UI doesn\u0026#39;t look far off from other PM tools, but they have incorporated OpenAI capabilities. For example, you can use AI to generate descriptions for your issues.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/plane-ui.webp\" alt=\"plane-ui\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwitter Algorithm\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, of course, let\u0026#39;s not not forget \u003ca href=\"http://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm\"\u003eTwitter\u0026#39;s algorithm\u003c/a\u003e, open-sourced on April Fool\u0026#39;s. It got ~30k Stargazers on the first day alone.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"/assets/blog/star-history-monthly-pick-202304/twitter.webp\" alt=\"twitter\"\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to Elon\u0026#39;s own warm-up on his social media, the hype is also high because the recommendation ranking algorithm for most companies is top secret. This is definitely a first🤫.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, things are changing at lightning speed at Twitter Engineering⚡️. 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