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

https://github-store.org/blog/how-i-built-github-store/
6•rainxchzed•2h ago

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dlopes7•1h ago
I saw three em-dashes in one paragraph, no thanks
butterlesstoast•1h 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•1h 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.

tardedmeme•1h ago
It only matters if they sue you, though.
dewey•57m ago
Just like robbing a store is only a problem if they catch you.
rainxchzed•1h 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•55m 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.
iamnothere•45m ago
Why do you care so much about the name?
dewey•19m 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.
tardedmeme•1h ago
How do you keep malware out of the store?
butterlesstoast•1h 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?

rainxchzed•1h ago
https://github.com/OpenHub-Store/GitHub-Store/issues/315
sitzkrieg•1h ago
github would be universally better if they completely removed starring repositories. 2010 era irrelevance that everyone uses incorrectly
fy20•38m 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?
pan69•23m 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.
raincole•1h ago
Have you asked the AI you use whether you can use "Github" (a trademarked name) in your product?
rainxchzed•1h 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!!!
charcircuit•1h ago
The question still stands.
rainxchzed•56m ago
No.
raincole•42m ago
Have you asked the AI you use whether this is enough when approaching trademark issue?
serious_angel•1h 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•1h 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•57m ago
> A lot of human hard work involved

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

rainxchzed•58m 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!

lostmsu•1h ago
This should be a Show HN
rainxchzed•1h ago
I really did but it was after GHS's launch and it really didnt got too much points... sadly.
cebert•1h 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 complete uninterested now.
rainxchzed•1h ago
I am sorry, but i love when UI is expressive and when there is animations that make it more expressive!
iamnothere•44m 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.)

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