1. It's a proxy for measuring how interested the community is in your project. 2. A lot of people use star counts to determine whether or not your project is r

1. It's a proxy for measuring how interested the community is in your project. 2. A lot of people use star counts to determine whether or not your project is reputable. 3. As founder of a company with a major open source project, it's one of the only reliable data sources we have for benchmarking our own community growth. I can't see historical (or present) traffic numbers for other open source projects in the kubernetes space, but I can see the history of their star counts. That's really useful when you need to set goals for community growth 4. Some VCs care about it As with most metrics, the metric in and of itself isn't important. What it measures (community growth) is. So be careful to optimize the latter and not the former