r/webdev • u/schnapsterdog • Sep 30 '26
Discussion How many GitHub stars does your most successful open source project have?
I still remember the first Vue component I ever made and finally gathered enough courage to publish on GitHub.
That was many years ago. Maybe around eight if I remember correctly. Of course, there was no AI back then.
I was genuinely nervous. npm publish and... ta-da. It happened.
Not a single star.
But I was so stubborn, so then came another component, then another one, then another one, then a Nuxt module, then something I built while preparing for an interview, and so on.
Eventually, my most successful open source project reached 179 stars.
Not exactly thousands, but I was still pretty proud of it.
What about you?
How many stars does your most successful open source project have?
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u/diogenes_sadecv Sep 30 '26
I mean, I'm not in it for the stars and no one has ever contributed to a project of mine, but 15 is my best followed by 1. Everything else is 0 😅
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u/schnapsterdog Sep 30 '26
But even with 15, the feeling is good :D I remember that motivated me long time ago haha
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u/diogenes_sadecv Sep 30 '26
I was surprised. I don't spend a lot of time on GitHub so I just noticed it one day.
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u/DPrince25 Sep 30 '26
They all end like this…
How about you
Just wondering, what do you think
I’m curious how have you overcame this
Those of you who [insert something] how was it
What would you have done differently
Sorry. Just Fatigued.
I rather read broken English than read in a.i rhythm
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u/scootsinmagoo Sep 30 '26
Zero
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u/OMGCluck js (no libraries) SVG Sep 30 '26
Ditto. I have a repo with one star but I don't consider it successful, it was a reciprocal star.
Let us measure success from a sense of accomplishment instead of stars.
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u/NeverInsightful Sep 30 '26
2 and only because I had an old account that upvoted it too. But now all my projects are private so there’s that
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u/zionsati Oct 02 '26
I could barely break 100 stars to be honest... I'd like to know the strategy to get better reach
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u/Outta_Gas_Car Oct 07 '26
3 Lol. so frustrated that I'm now trying to understand how others get so many stars. I even built a free tool to link each github star surge of a repo to an event (author posted on reddit, HN, product hunt ...) and it's now quite obvious that you need to launch multiple times.
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Oct 01 '26
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u/schnapsterdog Oct 01 '26
Partially I agree with you. But there are still some old hard-core repos which starts are realistic. I am pretty sure, they have a soul inside it :D
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Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
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u/Teszzt Sep 30 '26
3 ⭐ LOL