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From 0 To 500 GitHub Stars: Our Year-Long Adventure🔥

Anthony Max on June 19, 2025

Hello everyone! Today, we would like to share a big event for us that happened the other day. Our project on GitHub received 500 stars! This is re...

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Thalles Augusto(ThesllaDev) • Jun 20

Congratulations and success! towards 1000 stars

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 20

Thanks!

Alex Patla • Jun 19

Congratulations!

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 19

Thanks!

Anirudh • Jun 20

Great stuff man. Congratulations on the 500 stars and I hope this carries on even further. Onwards and upwards :)

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Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 20

Thanks!

Nevo David • Jun 20

pretty cool to see the star count stack up like that - makes me wonder, you think habits or just grinding every day is what really keeps momentum past the first hype phase?

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 20

Thank you! This is a daily job.

Dotallio • Jun 19

Congrats on hitting 500 stars! How did your approach to sharing updates on social media change what you worked on next for HMPL.js?

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 19

Thank you! At the very least, we changed the syntax of the language in version 3.

Dario Mannu • Jun 20

Hey, congratulations for the hard work and dedication! :)

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 20

Thanks!

SetraTheX • Jun 20

Congratulations! I hope I get the same result :)

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 20

Thanks!

Anthony Max HMPL.js • Jun 19 • Edited

Thanks everyone! It's really cool that it turned out this way. Maybe when there are 1000 stars we can do something interesting in terms of an event like an online hackathon or something like that - I don't know yet.