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BackstagevsMuckScraper

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

BackstageMuckScraper
Score78/10046/100
Rank in category#8 of 166 in Developer Tools#4 of 6 in Feed Aggregator
GitHub stars34 734159
Stars, last 30 days+52—
Stable releases, 12 months143
Latest releasev1.57.0-next.0 · 27 Oct 2026v1.0.2 · 26 Oct 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoNo
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

Backstage scores 78/100 against 46/100 for MuckScraper, so it is the safer default.

Backstage ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 3 for MuckScraper.

Backstage is growing faster right now (+52 stars in 30 days).

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