Your GitHub Project Deserves 1,000 Stars⭐. Here’s How to Earn Them

Planning, promotion and programming

The Secret Developer
3 min readDec 7, 2024
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I’ve written this blog for over two years, yet I’ve still got some free time to write code. I like pushing features and squashing bugs.

If you want to make a real impact on the coding world you’ll be looking to get 1k + of stars on your project.

This isn’t something that happens overnight, so you will need a plan in order to get those juicy stars.

So, follow my guide and you’ll also have a supremely successful GitHub repository of your work.

Why it’s important

Work is work. Some people complete open-source work to show their talents working in a software dev team.

Others want to create their own repo. They want to show their work is impactful. In order to use this in a job hunt a candidate would need to show the receipts. Having more than 1,000 stars certainly is a powermove, and likely to get the attention of a good interviewer.

Build something valuable

Work on solving a real problem people have. This means that instead of looking for an audience for your work they will search for it!

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The Secret Developer
The Secret Developer

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