Sometimes it gives you some motivation or moral support to keep developing the software. I often see people open feature requests but don't even bother to give

Sometimes it gives you some motivation or moral support to keep developing the software. I often see people open feature requests but don't even bother to give a star. If I put a repository out there that just works for me, I'm less motivated to spend extra time to accommodate features for other people. It's free software, there's no monetization like the view count on youtube, the least you can do to support the developer is give a star.