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robbietilton/Compositor

Breakoutrank #106

The Photoshop alternative for Mac

5.8k+8.4k · 7d 624 73est. MITSwiftpushed 16h ago

Composite

71

conf 65%

Momentum

77

conf 60%

Vitality (PVI)

71

conf 67%

Community

58

conf 60%

Security & maint.

88

conf 85%

Ecosystem influence

55

conf 60%

Opportunity

59

conf 60%

Breakout · 7d

71%

conf 71%

Executive summary

Compositor is currently classified as breakout with a composite score of 71/100. Momentum (77) and vitality (71) diverge — attention is running ahead of maintenance depth. Estimated 7-day gain of 8,389 stars against a 5.8k-star base. Risk is assessed as low; the interpretable model puts its probability of entering the top trend cohort within 7 days at 71%.

90-day trajectory

+34.9k · 30d
2026-06-302026-09-27

Score breakdown

Every input, weight and normalized value — nothing hidden. Inputs marked est. are estimated until the full ingestion pipeline lands.

Momentum

Star velocityest.25%100
Star accelerationest.15%51
Fork velocityest.10%100
Contributor growthest.10%71
Issue activity growthest.10%41
PR activity growthest.10%65
External mention velocityest.10%100
Release event impactest.5%65
Trending-rank persistenceest.5%62

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 100%

Project Vitality Index

Commit consistency20%98
Release cadenceest.15%76
PR responsivenessest.15%60
Issue responsivenessest.15%65
Contributor diversityest.10%69
Maintainer continuityest.10%53
Documentation qualityest.5%74
Dependency freshnessest.5%50
Security hygieneest.5%58

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 67% · coverage 100%

Security & maintenance

Release recency25%98
License clarity20%92
Maintenance status25%98
Dependency stalenessest.15%69
Bus factorest.15%66

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 85% · coverage 100%

Ecosystem influence

Dependent repositoriesest.30%71
Quality-weighted dependentsest.20%60
Documentation citationsest.15%51
Contributor overlapest.15%67
Registry adoptionest.10%29
Topic centralityest.10%12

Model tn-interpretable-1.0.0 · confidence 60% · coverage 92% · missing: packageRegistryAdoption