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

rrainxchzed about 3 hours ago 31 commentsRead Article on github-store.org

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raincole•about 2 hours ago

Have you asked the AI you use whether you can use "Github" (a trademarked name) in your product?

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!!!

raincole•about 2 hours ago

Have you asked the AI you use whether this is enough when approaching trademark issue?

charcircuit•about 2 hours ago

The question still stands.

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

No.

sitzkrieg•about 2 hours ago

github would be universally better if they completely removed starring repositories. 2010 era irrelevance that everyone uses incorrectly

pan69•about 1 hour ago

A similar thing happens with npmjs downloads. Some people actually judge the quality of a npm package by how many automated build pipelines are pulling a certain package daily.

fy20•about 1 hour ago

Not sure I agree it would be better, but yes, what exactly is the obsession with stars? Some repos even have a chart in the readme that shows their star progression. That tells me what exactly?

hmokiguess•33 minutes ago

Maybe I’m getting old or I’m just too average but I never buy these 16 year old acting like that, is that really a thing? The whole article talks about this person doing all of it and then later says “… paid tier for things that costs us money”

Who’s us? Was it not an outlier 16 year old with a dream? I can’t help but feel weird about that. What does this kids parents do?

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.

cebert•about 2 hours ago

I know we are not supposed to comment on the UX experience of sites. However, I still feel the need to complain that the unnecessary animations I encountered while scrolling to read what this is about. I am completely uninterested now.

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

I am sorry, but i love when UI is expressive and when there is animations that make it more expressive!

iamnothere•about 2 hours ago

Nice, you should consider adding other sources as well like Codeberg, GitLab, and Sourcehut. Many projects are moving away from GitHub.

As others have pointed out, maybe stars aren’t the best metric, although I’m not sure what better metrics are easily derived.

(Don’t let the haters here get you down, they hate everything.)

serious_angel•about 2 hours ago

I am very sorry, but why does it scream AI, including the Readme, emojis, the post that mentions the age, as the most of such 1-week projects? As if the whole project was made by an LLM, similar to those dozens per day posted at /r/ClaudeCode?

And not to mention, a yet again, politics agitation...

That said, how much human was involved into this project, if I may ask?

I do not want to disrespect anyone, but I just want to trust your project, and to do so I must know how much there is yours of your own mind you trust yourself.

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

> I do not want to disrespect anyone, but I just want to trust your project, and to do so I must know how much there is yours of your own mind you trust yourself.

Mind is fully mine behind it but i still use AI to polish it and i really like its work in the end! Its not shame to use AI!

fatata123•about 1 hour ago

Actually it is a shame. It doesn’t “polish” it, it turns it into generic irritating slop, with the same style all AI slop is written in. It screams “the person who made this is lazy”. It is frankly an insult to the reader.

Maybe English isn’t your first language so you don’t appreciate that, but I promise if it was done in your native language it would piss you off.

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

A lot of human hard work involved

Its true that i use AI to polish things as of now, but i swear by the time i started the project i used almost 0 AI help.!

Please learn to value some's hard work rather than right away trying to make joke out of it.

bdangubic•about 2 hours ago

> A lot of human hard work involved

no there wasn’t and it is very obvious that it wasn’t

tardedmeme•about 2 hours ago

How do you keep malware out of the store?

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

https://github.com/OpenHub-Store/GitHub-Store/issues/315

butterlesstoast•about 2 hours ago

How did you get 300+ karma in only 19 days?

Looking at your comments, it looks like a bot has been reading articles and leaving easy questions to build karma.

What on earth is this page, project, and thread?

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 2 hours 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.

lostmsu•about 2 hours ago

This should be a Show HN

rainxchzed•about 2 hours ago

I really did but it was after GHS's launch and it really didnt got too much points... sadly.