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You are not looking at right places. Github repo counts have been high since 2020 because there are companies & individuals who run fork scripts. So AI cant match the numbers.

But on product hunt, the amount of projects is First week of Jan: 5000+, Entire Jan 2018: 4000 approx.

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That doesn’t mean industry output is high, it means people are starting new products.

Has the output of existing companies/products increased substantially?

Have more products proven successful and started companies?

hard to say but maybe a little

>Has the output of existing companies/products increased substantially?

Would be impossible to tell.

No, it would be pretty easy if it looked like new features were shipping significantly faster. But they’re not.

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