Show HN: StarHog – See who starred your open source project

[alishobeiri]

Over the weekend, I built a small project to help open-source projects better understand who starred their projects.

It helps you see the number of stars per day, week, month etc so you can monitor the health and the general trend as well.

Lastly, it lets you fetch their public contact info, if you wish to do so.

I initally built it as a Python script but after a few friends said they had the same problem, I decided to make it into a website. Would love to hear what you think!

[chrisjh]

Looks good OP - I frequently look at the stargazers list for various repos and see if there's overlap in interest between projects. I imagine this is about as good as targeted marketing as you could get for software, but I'm curious to hear if devs respond well to "hey you use/like/starred X, want to try out Y?"

[alishobeiri]

The way I was approaching it was from the maintainer perspective where I want to engage with the community of stargazers. My experience with that has been fairly good and folks are responsive.

I had a friend who used the original script to reach out to a repo similar to what he was hoping to build and actually got a lot of good feedback as well, so from the small sample size it has generally been positive.

To give a way to protect against potential abuse, I created a form on the homepage where anyone can be asked to be excluded from a StarHog list. Though I am open to hearing suggestions if you might have any as well.

[grayscale123]

Cool project, can see myself using it a lot! Any plans on open-sourcing the codebase?

[ramonverse]

Cool project. Would be nice that if you only input a repo name without / it autocompletes to repo_name/repo_name like other star gazer apps do