diff --git a/GUIDELINES.md b/GUIDELINES.md index 8ddf1ad..106f122 100644 --- a/GUIDELINES.md +++ b/GUIDELINES.md @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -## Submission Guidelines +# Submission Guidelines +Before contributing please familiarize yourself with these guidelines. + +## Criteria To avoid the clutter trap that many other lists succumb to as they scale, only the best software is included. But "best" is relative and differs person-to-person. Here, it's mostly guaged based on five criteria. Keep in mind every "guideline" is more of a suggestion and can be skirted, thus, pay greater attention to the real-life examples I've included - they do a much better job of articulating what makes it onto this list. ### 1. Popularity @@ -25,7 +28,7 @@ Lastly, is the software decent? ## Examples Determing whether software belongs on this list often involves a lot of external research - all of which will be explored in these examples. -## 1. PearCleaner +### 1. PearCleaner Description - A free, source-available and fair-code licensed mac app cleaner Stars - 4.2k @@ -36,7 +39,7 @@ On the surface PearCleaner woudn't fit with a relatively small amount of stars a Result: YES -## 2. +## 2. Marktext Description - 📝A simple and elegant markdown editor, available for Linux, macOS and Windows. Stars - 48.1k @@ -47,7 +50,7 @@ Every part of this project passes the test... except for the fact that it's aban Result: NO -## Zed Editor +## 3. Zed Editor Description - Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. Stars - 52.3k