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Should I focus on GitHub stars or forks for my open source project?

by xan_ps007 on 6/5/24, 6:15 PM with 1 comments

  • by xan_ps007 on 6/5/24, 6:15 PM

    Hi HN,

    We have been in a pretty interesting case where the forks/stars ratio has been > 30% and growing steadliy in this ratio.

    We understand that stars might be a vanity metric and hence we are focusing more on the number of forks and talking to developers using us.

    Wanted to know about the experience on stars v/s forks towards growing the community and the overall project as to what worked best and what things we can avoid. I do undertand that every use-case might be different.

    Thank you.