Add README with project overview and feature roadmap

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 # GoodFirstIssue
+GoodFirstIssue is a platform that helps developers-especially beginners-discover open-spource repositories with beginner-friendly issues such as **good first issue** and **help wanted**. 
+
+The goal is to make contribution to open source easier by surfacing high quality repositories and relevant issues in one place.
+
+---
+
+## 🚀 Features
+
+- List GitHub repositories with counts of issues having specific labels 
+- Sort repositories based on:
+    - Number of beginner-friendly issues
+    - Stars
+    - Recent activity (last pull request)
+    - Notifications when new **good first issues** appear
+    - Bookmark repositories and add personal notes
+    - Filter repositories from large organizations (e.g. Facebook, Google, Apple)
+
+---
+
+
+## Project Idea
+
+Many beginners struggle to find the right open-source project to contribute to. 
+
+GoodFirstIssue aims to solve this by:
+
+- Highlighting active repostories
+- Prioritizing beginner-friendly issues
+- Providing signals like starts and recend activity
+- Reducing noise from inactive or isolated projects
+
+
+---
+
+## Planned Enhancements
+
+- Email or notification system for new beginner issues
+- Github newsletter highlighting trending repositories
+- Community-written articles and guides
+- Better caching strategies to reduce API requests
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome!
+
+If you're new to open source, this project is a great place to start.  
+You can help by:
+- Improving documentation
+- Suggesting features
+- Fixing bugs
+- Enhancing UI/UX
+
+
+---
+
+## 📄 Notes
+
+Initial project ideas and brainstorming notes can be found in `spec.md`.