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illa-buildervsnostr-watch

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

illa-buildernostr-watch
Score67/10042/100
Rank in category#3 of 17 in Low Code#84 of 104 in Monitoring & observability
GitHub stars12 336199
Stars, last 30 days+12+0
Stable releases, 12 months03
Latest release—nocap-info-adapter-default@v1.2.0 · 11 Mar 2026
SetupAdvancedAdvanced
Official Docker imageNoYes
LicenseApache-2.0MIT
Main languageTypescriptTypescript

Which one should you pick?

illa-builder scores 67/100 against 42/100 for nostr-watch, so it is the safer default.

nostr-watch ships more often: 3 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for illa-builder.

illa-builder is growing faster right now (+12 stars in 30 days).

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