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Comment by janjones | Hacker News Reader

A clever "popularity" trick - you must star the project in order to try it.

It may be a "growth hack" but it does seem like a decent way to prevent people from surreptitiously looking at others' information (even though it's all already public anyway).

It advertises itself as "Great for all the tech-savy bosses who want to have a quick view of person's git/github activity, before the interview".

I guess the tech-savy bosses are savy enough to run this locally with the "opt-in" check patched out.

I mean anything coming from GitHub is anyway public. (Except for private repos of course)

Probably best to assume the private ones are public too

Honestly, that sounds like another growth-hacking strategy; when someone uses it, they get a pat on the back for being "tech savvy"

What’s the benefit from “surreptitiously” viewing people’s public information?

I'm not imaginative enough to envision a nefarious scenario, but that doesn't mean none exist. Maybe just curiosity? The format does seem a bit nicer than the public profile at least.

I was able to work around that by putting a breakpoint at the moment of check and changing the flag via console :)

This is a GitHub project, I think? Based on the (non-working) resume.github.com URL anyway. It seems more like a "hack" to me, and not really a "growth hack"; "what can we use to opt-in people for this experiment without adding a setting to GitHub proper?"

> This is a GitHub project, I think? Based on the (non-working) resume.github.com URL anyway.

I believe it's just a typo, the correct URL is https://resume.github.io

i could be wrong here, but I seem to remember that many years ago GitHub pages were originally hosted on <username>.github.com

Yup:

https://github.blog/2013-04-05-new-github-pages-domain-githu...

https://github.blog/changelog/2021-01-29-github-pages-will-s...

I really loved seeing that, this is probably one of the cooler parts of this project IMO.

I tried it just for that reason :D

I've only barely used GitHub, what's the star supposed to indicate?

I like to Star Repos that I wanna take a look at later that I may not have an immediate use for. You can view any repos you've starred right on Github.

Basically equivalent to a like, just one measurement on how popular a project might be within the community.

Definitely not an indicator of quality of any kind.

It can also be used like a bookmarks system. You add a star to a project and then you see all repos that you added a star: https://github.com/<username>?tab=stars

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