A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories
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Hey everyone, here is a small project I've built over the last weekend. I'd love to know what you think :)
HN · launched May 26, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: online trivia quiz games · 163 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -17% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 163 launches in online trivia quiz games →
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 : 656 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #574 of 657 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 207 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a better GitHub search that rank repos by what matters · hn · 2026-05-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- star-demo · github · 2026-11-05 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Score your GitHub repo for AI coding agents · hn · 2026-03-17 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Startidy · github · 2026-09-29 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Every Developer in the World, Ranked · hn · 2026-03-12 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Better Hub · hn · 2026-02-25 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- vitalaize · github · 2026-09-29 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Rickub · hn · 2026-09-18 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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