I built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months – I started at 16 (github-store.org)

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

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.

How do you keep malware out of the store?

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

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

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.

This should be a Show HN

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.

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.)

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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?