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10 tips to reach 5400+ ⭐️ stars on a GitHub with an open source project

Necati Özmen on November 15, 2022

We are maintaining an open-source React framework for building CRUD apps easily. You can take a look: https://github.com/refinedev/refine ...
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Alican Erdurmaz •

Thank you for sharing your strategies 🙏

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iamjaydev •

Thanks for tips

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Necati Özmen •

Thank you too!

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Kurtiss Frost •

I would definitely love to hear your thoughts on the documentation and README. I feel like I'm lacking in that area when it comes to uploads. I look forward to the next post about it.

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Necati Özmen •

I think the most important way is having documentation and README. I'll write an article about it.

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Omer Aplak •

Thank you 🎯

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Jintao Zhang •

very reasonable

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Necati Özmen •

Thanks!

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Jouseph Jacob •

Good job Necati, if that possible I would like to join your Discord group.thanks.

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Necati Özmen •

Sure here is the link for community Discord Server:
discord.gg/refine

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Yıldıray Ünlü •

Thank you for good suggestions 🚀

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Shahbaz •

thanks for sharing this useful information!

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Necati Özmen •

Thank you too!

 
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Necati Özmen •

I agree with you

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Jon Randy 🎖️ •

Do you get a prize when you reach 6k?

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Necati Özmen •

It's always nice to know that people like what you have created by starred it

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • • Edited

Stars are a bookmarking feature, just like in browsers where the icon for bookmarking is also a star - you can even organise your GitHub stars into lists - a further organisational feature. Stars doesn't necessarily represent a 'like' - GitHub isn't a social network. I've starred at least 5 repos in the past to use as examples of bad code for teaching juniors!

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Necati Özmen •

I agree with you on "Stars doesn't necessarily represent a 'like". Maybe some developers using it as a bookmark. However, they may be bookmarking because they like the repository:)

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Necati Özmen •

By the way, I use stars for bookmarking too.. But stars means a lot for open source project..

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Krirk Srithaweewath •

When I saw your question
at first I thought you ask because you don't know how does the star works but
according to your comment it seems you already know about it.

May I know why did you ask such as question ?