A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories
Details
- External ID
- 48277272
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A small game where you have to guess the stars of GitHub repositories
- Website domain
- vincentwill.com
- Launched
- May 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1147011308562197
- Tags
- —
- 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
- —
- 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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- Rickub · hn · 2026-09-18 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Git Quick Stats · hn · 2025-11-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.