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A method to artificially pump up the GitHub star count will be found, but little useful software will be made.

• tomrod 4y ago
  It would perhaps be called "starhacking" or "repoCD"
• viraptor 4y ago
  Also 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.
  • ushakov 4y ago
    24k on GitHub, 32k on HN. You must be good at getting internet points
    • viraptor 4y ago
      Do anything long enough and you'll get lucky one day. There was no skill involved beyond HN addiction.