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Hey you, talk about your side-projects!

Saurabh Daware 🌻 on May 29, 2020

Around 3 years ago, I started using GitHub. Though I've been working on some super cool projects, for 2 years all of these projects went unnoticed....
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Pedro Pimenta

Do you know how Instagram deletes tou line breaks and messes up your text? I built Instatext for that reason only and specifically. It's small, it's not pretty, but it's useful and it's my first React app on my journey. I have 2 Instagram stars :)

I am now building a much larger project and focusing my energy on being a full-on JS dev!

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

That is amazing! Best of luck with your new project and do write an article on it when you're ready to share :D

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Yash Dave

Great article! Congrats on six hundred stars on your repo, that's mind-blowing!!! 🤯 Also, don't mind me, just going to yoink that baby duck (I think) with knife meme 😋

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

haha sure! Thank you, Yash :D

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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 🌻

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Bhupesh Varshney 👾

highest stars on my GitHub repository were 9 (8 classmates + me)

literally me when I started :)

Great Post 🔥
I think I will be sharing some insights that helped as well.

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Thank you Bhupesh and yes that would be great!

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Vosidiy

I made bootstrap-menu.com on january 2020, Idea was just to help developers to build better web menus with clean code, People who works with bootstrap they struggle to build submenus or mega menus or mobile sidebars. Now my project getting popular, check it and share it if you like.

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Rei Allen Ramos

Amazing journey! I totally agree, writing an article and posting to reddit definitely helped me get some stars on my projects (not as much as 600+ though, that's honestly amazing).

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Saurabh Daware 🌻

Thank you so much! any number of humans liking your work feels is great ✨

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Athul Anil Kumar

Thank you for sharing this!!