Let me make a semi-cynical reply, and at the same time challenge you to prove me wrong. Let me also say that you learn more from failure than success, so even

Let me make a semi-cynical reply, and at the same time challenge you to prove me wrong. Let me also say that you learn more from failure than success, so even if this goes as I predict, you'll learn a lot about this kind of idea, and that alone may be worth it. I predict the project will fail. Here's my thinking; Firstly, projects should always start with a revenue model. You didn't mention one so either you chose not to mention it, or you don't have one. This project will cost money every month, in hosting fees if nothing else. If it becomes popular it'll fail because you can't afford it. Secondly it'll fail because the data needs to be curated. If it isn't, and it becomes popular it'll be buried in low-quality submissions. There are thousands and thousands of everything released as open source. 99% of it is rubbish (just like commercial stuff.) Curating costs time or money. Once you get a day job, or another OSS idea, this one will lose your attention, and with it any sense of quality. Lastly there's a network effect problem. To be valuable you need the directory to be populated. To get populated it needs to be valuable. As a bonus, someone else proposes such a directory every other week. Some have been successful for a while. But they don't stick around. Why do you suppose that is? Why doesn't a quality directory already exist? The idea is not novel, sooo ..... ? Good luck!