diff --git a/.github/contributing.md b/.github/contributing.md
index 63548ac0e..c791545c6 100644
--- a/.github/contributing.md
+++ b/.github/contributing.md
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 1. Make sure you put things in the right category!
 2. Always add your items to the end of a list. To be fair, the order is first-come-first-serve.
 3. If you think something belongs in the wrong category, or think there needs to be a new category, feel free to edit things too.
+4. The list should contain awesome things. Just useful is not enough, especially if its for niche use cases. 
+5. If your library has a lot of overlap, or just supports a subset of one of the 'Truly awesome' project then the bar for inclusion is even higher.
 
 ## Projects using Vuejs
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 11c03802f..75e64cabd 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -162,6 +162,14 @@
 - [IDE Language Support](https://github.com/vuejs/language-tools?tab=readme-ov-file#vue-language-tools)
 - [Awesome Vite](https://github.com/vitejs/awesome-vite)
 
+### Truly awesome projects
+
+These projects are exceptionally high quality, have a proven trackrecord, and are virtually indispensable.
+
+ - [Vue DevTools](https://github.com/vuejs/devtools) - Browser devtools extension for debugging Vue.js applications.
+ - [unplugin-icons](https://github.com/unplugin/unplugin-icons) - On-demand icon loader supporting all known popular icon sets
+ - [vue-i18n](https://github.com/intlify/vue-i18n) - Internationalization plugin for Vue.js
+
 ### External Resources
 
 - [Vue.js 資料まとめ(for japanese)](https://gist.github.com/hashrock/f575928d0e109ace9ad0) by @hashrock
@@ -1008,13 +1016,6 @@ _Overlay / modal / alert / dialog / lightbox / popup_
 - [@kolirt/vue-modal](https://github.com/kolirt/vue-modal) - ⚡️ Simple Vue3 modal package
 - [vuetify-resize-drawer](https://github.com/webdevnerdstuff/vuetify-resize-drawer) - The vuetify-resize-drawer component extends the functionality of the v-navigation-drawer so that it is resizable by the user.
 
-#### Icons
-
-- [vue-material-design-icons](https://github.com/robcresswell/vue-material-design-icons "vue-material-design-icons on GitHub") - A collection of SVG Material Design icons as single file components.
-- [vue-fontawesome](https://github.com/FortAwesome/vue-fontawesome) - Font Awesome 5 Vue component
-- [vue-fa](https://github.com/Cweili/vue-fa) - Simple FontAwesome 5 Vue.js 2 component.
-- [vue-icons](https://github.com/kalimah-apps/vue-icons) - More than 11,000 icons from most popular icon libraries (bootstrap, fontawesome, feather .. etc)
-
 #### Marquee
 
 - [vue3-marquee](https://github.com/megasanjay/vue3-marquee) - A simple and responsive marquee component for Vue 3 applications with 0 dependencies.