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Should I use Track Awesome List?

We track over 500 awesome list updates, and you can also subscribe to daily or weekly updates via RSS or News Letter. - trackawesomelist.com

Worth it. Use it if you already follow GitHub awesome lists and want their daily changes via RSS or newsletter — it's free and does exactly that. Skip it if you need supported, security-reviewed tooling or monitoring beyond awesome-list diffs.

Confidence

Medium. Based on 10 public sources; no G2/Capterra-style independent reviews found.

Ratings

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Feature depth
  • Support qualityNo support evidence found
  • Security posture

Pricing

$0

Free

ModelNot disclosed
Monthly feesNot disclosed
HardwareNot disclosed
Free tierYes

Best for

  • Devs following awesome lists
  • RSS and newsletter subscribers
  • List maintainers embedding update badges

Not for

  • Anyone who doesn't already read awesome lists
  • Teams needing supported, SLA-backed tooling
  • Buyers wanting custom repo monitoring — GitHub watch does that natively
  • Security-sensitive uses — no published security page

Gotchas - check before you buy

medium

Side project with no support channel if it breaks or goes quiet

medium

Guess: limited to curated awesome lists; arbitrary repo tracking unlikely

low

Free with sponsor link; no SLA or uptime promise anywhere

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Tracks 500+ awesome lists in one place
  • Free daily or weekly updates via RSS or newsletter
  • Open source, built with Deno, self-hostable
  • Widely embedded badges; listed on sindresorhus/awesome itself
  • Daily update pages show exactly what changed per list

Cons

  • No published security page
  • Open-source side project, no company or support behind it
  • Scope limited to awesome lists only

Sources & method

Analyzed 9/20/2026 - 10 sources - No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. No published security page.

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Key stats

  • Value for money: 5/5

    Rating

  • $0

    Starting price

  • 10

    Sources

  • Analyzed

  • Value for money: 5/5. Completely free, no paid tier
  • Ease of use: 4/5. Subscribe by RSS or email, zero setup
  • Feature depth: 2/5. Readme diffs, RSS, badges — that's all
  • Support quality. No support evidence found
  • Security posture: 2/5. No security page; only public data
  • 500+ Awesome lists tracked Daily or weekly digests
  • Free Price No paid tiers found; sponsor link only
  • 657 GitHub stars trackawesomelist repo
  • Daily Update cadence Weekly option via RSS or newsletter

Pricing

Free

$0

  • All 500+ awesome list updates
  • Daily/weekly RSS and newsletter digests

Security

No known vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.

No published security page.

What users say

Coverage is mostly list maintainers embedding its badges; one Hacker News thread debated whether feed aggregators are still useful.

“Now I'm very curious if Feed aggregators are dead or not. So I appreciate your opinion :)”
Hacker News (Show HN thread)
Full analysis

Based on 10 public sources; no G2/Capterra-style independent reviews found.

Free, niche tracker for GitHub awesome-list diffs via RSS/newsletter. Great for devs; irrelevant if you don't follow awesome lists.

Methodology

Based on 10 public sources; no G2/Capterra-style independent reviews found.

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