[linkregister]

1000+ stars is a pretty big deal! I imagine you could leverage this to gain software development job interviews if you were looking.

Do they matter? It is just one of many metrics of how useful a repository is. I think it's one of the most public metrics that can be distilled to a single factoid on HN. There are absolutely better metrics to judge the quality of software.

[thewhitetulip]

Well, I am not sure I can use it, since it is a book :-)

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/web-dev-golang-anti-textboo...

Also I am not in US.

[tkxxx7]

teaching people to build web apps, especially without a framework in a language like Go, should buy you tons of leverage.

[thewhitetulip]

I wasn't aware of it, thank you :-)