Ask HN: We got 100 stars. A weekend project got 12k. What are we missing?

2•lilwing•1h ago

This week Graphify launched off the back of a Karpathy tweet. 48 hours to build and 1k stars. in 2 days. It uses an llm to INFER system structure literally labeling its own edges as "inferred"

we launched Ix a week ago. its an open source CLI that maps any codebase into a persistent architectural graph so ai agents stop relearning your system every session. 100 stars in 10 days. Graphify got 12k in 48 hours.

when a tool is built in 48 hours anf outpaces months of engineering in star velocity is that a signal about the product itself or the timing?? does the better technical approach win eventually or is the early momentum most important.

I think we have the better solution but also aware i might just be wrong about what the market wants right now. can anyone look through our repo and tell us?

would be super helpful.ill put the link in comments

Comments

lilwing•1h ago

https://github.com/ix-infrastructure/Ix

BeetleB•1h ago

1. Karpathy is famous. You're not.

2. How many of those stars are bots?

lilwing•1h ago

well yeah exactly.. Karpathy is famous and we're not.

no bots. we are a team of students with no budget for that. They're all real developers with commit histories and real profiles. looked at this already.

I guess my question here is more like how are builds with minimal efforts getting more recognition than ones built by teams and for months? It's annoying to see "inferred" context getting more recognition than actual deterministic structure

sgbeal•50m ago

> What are we missing?

To re-frame the question: why do you care how many stars (presumably you're talking about github stars?) you have? Does the number of stars change what you develop or how you develop it?

Losing sleep over github star count is akin to losing sleep over up/downvotes on HackerNews or thumbs on Your Favorite Social Media Site. Tying one's self-worth to them, or one's self-image of one's own works to them, is... well, kinda sad.

> i might just be wrong about what the market wants right now.

Github stars are no indication of "what the market wants" - they're an indication of how many people (or scripted bots) have seen the project, thought "huh, interesting," and clicked the star so that they have a bookmark of it for later reference in their github settings.

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