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Liyas Thomas

This article is great 👌

I'm the author of Postwoman.io (20.1k GitHub stars).

When I started contributing to open source, I too went through every stages you've mentioned in this article. Only to find out later that GitHub stars doesn't matter. Low stars count doesn't indicate a stale project. I wrote about it here.

and also i wrote There's more to life than work/school/career

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Thank you, Liyas! and I loveee postwoman I've used it and thank you for building it.

Totally agree that GitHub stars don't matter, for me it's the excitement of someone else using something I've built. I think while writing the article I used stars to have some sort of numerical representation to show how talking about the projects has helped me.

and I absolutelyyy lovedd both of your articles! Thank you so much 🌻