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This. I've seen a couple open core startups that are less than a year old with thousands of stars on their repositories, so I decided to have a look at some of
by tzhenghao 3y ago
This. I've seen a couple open core startups that are less than a year old with thousands of stars on their repositories, so I decided to have a look at some of these profiles who starred the project. Most of them have weird usernames that resemble spam accounts, almost all of them cannot be pointed to some other profile on a different platform (Twitter, LinkedIn, HN etc.).
Another giveaway is the ratio of stars to watchers / forks. I remember one project with thousands of stars but only 10 users "watching" it. They went on to raise a sizable seed round too.
- smacke 3y ago> Another giveaway is the ratio of stars to watchers / forks. I remember one project with thousands of stars but only 10 users "watching" it. They went on to raise a sizable seed round too. Not necessarily indicative of foul play. I have two projects like this (https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync and https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow https://github.com/ipyflow/ipyflow) and I attribute it to not having great developer documentation.
- tzhenghao 3y agoGood point. By the way, I checked out both projects above and starred them. Pretty cool!
- smacke 3y ago<3
- julianbuse 3y agopart of the problem /s