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Are those 9.7k real users? I mean, maybe I am too old fashioned, but whenever I tried to use such tools long before AI, it actually didn't help much. It was much easier to read the codebase and find the needed connection on my own.

It reminds me on NX graphs, which are helpful to find the circular dependencies, but other than that, doesn't provide a lot of value as I can see the same kind of structure just looking at the codebase.

Am I doing something wrong with these tools?

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Playing amateur detective here, but "A huge thank you to the community!" blurb was added to the repo on March 20th [0], just before the hockey stick inflection point on the 21st where they got exactly 1800 more stars... then exactly 1000 more the next day, 1000 more after that, then 900... etc. [1] The only point where we see the first sig digit be NOT zero is today. Maybe there's some truncation that github does on their end for the API, but it being exactly +1000 a couple days in a row is indicative.

Wow. I thought the github clout market would be a bit more subtle about it.

[0] https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything/commit/9866fc...

[1] https://www.star-history.com/lum1104/understand-anything#his...

Now it'll be, "Author of library with 10K stars on github, front page on HN, #1 ProductHunt"

As fun of a theory as this is, star-history.com just seems to round off the numbers at multiples of a hundred - just look at any other repo on the site.

You can check the historical star data here:

https://trendshift.io/repositories/23482

Honestly, I’m the author of the project :)

> Are those 9.7k real users?

I don't quite get this stars and users connection. The stuff I use, I use, I don't need to star it. The reference is saved somewhere else. I bookmark, which is what the star is, stuff that seems interesting. So basically star for me is that I don't actually use the project, most of the time.

And yes, I glance at stars for a popularity cutoff, but forks, PRs, issues are much more telling.

Just look at the star graph on the bottom of the readme (itself a sign of a hype driven project with little substance). I highly doubt that hockey stick is organic.

the hockey stick was probably from when they paid for fake stars: https://awesomeagents.ai/news/github-fake-stars-investigatio...

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