I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16

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dlopes7•about 2 hours ago

I saw three em-dashes in one paragraph, no thanks

butterlesstoast•about 2 hours ago

Glad - I - wasn’t the only one that saw - AI article - giveaways…

GitHub stars have been proven to be easily purchasable.

Happy to hear the progress and that should be celebrated without the focus on stars.

dewey•about 2 hours ago

It’s not a good idea to use another companies name in your name.

Also stars are a relatively useless metric that’s very easily gamed. I would try to find another metric that’s more focused on what value was provided.

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

I mentioned in legal notice that the project is not affiliated with github and reason i named it GitHub Store is because it discovers projects directly from github!!!

dewey•about 2 hours ago

Pirating sites also always have a "Please only download the content if you have a valid license" in the footer...it's meaningless especially if there's a high potential for confusion as you are even active right in the same field. I originally thought it might be a GitHub merchandise store.

tardedmeme•about 2 hours ago

It only matters if they sue you, though.

dewey•about 2 hours ago

Just like robbing a store is only a problem if they catch you.

iamnothere•about 1 hour ago

Why do you care so much about the name?

dewey•about 1 hour ago

There’s countless projects that had to change their name for exactly that reason. OP seems to be a bit naive about that fact, easier to change early on than later.

I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16

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