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A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories

Details

External ID
48277272
Source
HN
Company
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Product
A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories
Website domain
vincentwill.com
Launched
May 26, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.1147011308562197
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

Hey everyone, here is a small project I've built over the last weekend. I'd love to know what you think :)

Enrichment

Theme
git and repository workflow tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
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Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
github repository guessing game
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes It is a straightforward web game that queries the GitHub public API for repo metadata and star counts, with simple client-side guessing mechanics.

Discussion

3 comments analyzed.

Feature requests: filter star-history.com from README to prevent cheating

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 228 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #195 of 229 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 198 days after the earliest competitor.

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