As the blog author, you can believe I struggled to distill Open Repos down to a concise soundbite. What makes it hard is that we've built it cover many bases, and we're hoping that customer feedback will lead us in the directions that are most valuable. Here's what it is so far:

* A free product

* A product that collects per-release statistics such that A) maintainers save time summarizing their release B) devs who are evaluating a lib upgrade can hone in on the specific difference between their version (e.g., 1.0.1) and the current version

* A product that makes it possible to browse through all the commits being made to a repo in visual fashion (i.e., to learn code style or stay in the loop on changes) and to discover repos where interesting code is being written

Per Michael Seibel's recent recco on Twitter, this isn't an AI solution and we're not an AI company. Approximating code evolution is hard enough without it.