I have two projects which between them total around 11.5k stars. It serves as a decent estimation of an answer to "are people using my stuff?". When one of the

I have two projects which between them total around 11.5k stars. It serves as a decent estimation of an answer to "are people using my stuff?". When one of the projects got picked up by a large HN-style site (Designer News, IIRC), I was alerted to it by spotting the number of stars skyrocketing. It can be useful beyond vanity/bookmarking