Steps to get to 250 stars on GitHub

> Third, you need a small point threshold to appear on Show HN. Tell your 3 closest dev friends to upvote you

No, this is against the HN guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html "Please don't ask friends to upvote or comment." Dozens of Show HN failed hard (domain block, users banned) for starting a thread and adding friends who start praising the project within the first minutes or ask low-ball questions.