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by eps 1132 days ago
Why is a good chunk of the Readme dedicated to pleading for a repo star?

Not the first time seeing a project doing that. This can't be just for vanity reasons. Anyone knows?

3 comments

Stars boost visibility and is an important number motivating people who work on these for free
At least it's better than buying fake stars

https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars

Makes your CV look good.
Just went to the project creators LinkedIn and this project is his work Experience section(LinkedIn has separate project section for these) and it explicitly mentions the number of stars.