Those are good challenges to bring up. In terms of usage, I think publicly available data can provide a useful enough picture: - downloads - upvotes (ex. git

Those are good challenges to bring up. In terms of usage, I think publicly available data can provide a useful enough picture: - downloads - upvotes (ex. github stars) - homepage traffic - forum activity (ex. stackoverflow) - reported corporate usage - etc. Finding out current funding is more difficult, and seems to rely on self-reporting and trust. If the site also accepted donations for projects, it could display which are most underfunded on its platform relative to their utility.