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by chrisjh 660 days ago
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?"
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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.