https://www.solosoft.dev/tags/soc-2-readiness/Recent content in SOC 2 Readiness on SoloSoftHugoen-usMon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/orca-96636-stars-152-watchers-download-audit/Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.solosoft.dev/post/orca-96636-stars-152-watchers-download-audit/<p>Orca is a desktop application that runs several coding agents side by side, each in its own git worktree, and lets you steer them from a phone. It is MIT-licensed, backed by Y Combinator, and its repository (<code>stablyai/orca</code>) was created on 17 March 2026. When I pulled the repository metadata on 19 October 2026 it read like this:</p> <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Field</th> <th>Value (GitHub API, 2026-10-19 UTC)</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>Stars</td> <td>96,636</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Forks</td> <td>6,177</td> </tr> <tr> <td><strong>Watchers</strong></td> <td><strong>152</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Open issues + open PRs (<code>open_issues_count</code>)</td> <td>8,471</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Commits on <code>main</code></td> <td>15,007</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Branches</td> <td>11,876</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Tags / releases</td> <td>1,129 / 977</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Contributors</td> <td>604</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Repository size</td> <td>1,451,413 KB (~1.45 GB)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Primary language</td> <td>TypeScript (95.1%)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>License</td> <td>MIT</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p>Every one of those numbers is real. The interesting part is that they do not describe the same thing, and two of them — stars and downloads — are routinely read as if they did. This is an attempt to read the repository as instrument data rather than as a popularity contest, and to say plainly where the data supports the marketing and where it does not.</p>