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Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent. Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of
by xwdv 4y ago
Imagine for a moment though, if GitHub stars could pay your rent.
Imagine a corporation spends money on an experiment where they purchase some luxury units of a fancy apartment building, and then rent was decided based on GitHub stars. You must collect a certain number of GitHub stars each month to satisfy rent or you get evicted. I wonder what kind of projects would come out of this.
- zaik 4y agoA method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.
- tomrod 4y agoIt would perhaps be called "starhacking" or "repoCD"
- viraptor 4y agoAlso the distribution of stars is... weird. I've got a repo with 24k stars (which is still enough for top 500 on github) which took minimal effort and no maintenance - definitely lower than a lot of large software projects which deserve lots of money. Like, I'm next to pipenv and vagrant and making any money distribution based on that would be absurd.
- _wldu 4y agoThat idea sort of proves that Github has evolved into a popularity contest/social platform. It use to be a git hosting company.