Ask HN: Has GitHub stars become a gamed metric?
It seems that FOSS and “open core” has become a hard requirement to gain street cred, especially for dev tools. Businesses and VC-backed projects are doing it, but they need to monetize, somehow. For established businesses, they have lots of resources and sharing a wide range of tools that are orthogonal to their core business, and low risk. For startups, they go with the open core model for their flagship product. I’ve noticed some VC backed startups having thousands of GitHub stars but very little online presence, sometimes with zero references on HackerNews. Also, merge requests go abandoned or closed when you dig deeper. Has fraud detection proof bots for GitHub become more prevalent and accessible?
Why it failed
It seems that FOSS and “open core” has become a hard requirement to gain street cred, especially for dev tools. Businesses and VC-backed projects are doing it, but they need to monetize, somehow. For established businesses, they have lots of resources and sharing a wide range of
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- diceduckmonk
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews