I will tell you a story about my recent project and how it all went (im not going to shill it here).
So yeah. I have created a project, 2.5+ LOC, modern C++17, CMake, Qt5, good project structure and everything, but later find out that somebody else has already done something really similar, but in an interpreted language, and that project has seemingly MUCH more stars than mine because it's been there for some time (2-3 years) and thus earned its reputation among its users.
It does feel nice when people star your repo as an appreciation for your efforts, yet it looks like they do it out of pitiness (?).
Now I'm thinking of making a gameboy emulator because the whole idea about it, as a whole, looks cool. In addition to that, I'd like to test Boost.Asio asynchronous server/client 'cause I've never used external libraries for networking (Asio, Libuv, ...) before, except for C's style of sockets (sys/socket.h)
There are countless of already done gameboy emulators on GitHub though, so I'm having second thoughts of whether to make it or not.. :/
I'd like to add that I've failed 2 classes in Uni due to depression, so those stars sort of boosted my self-esteem (but for how long though?)..
So, my question is, how do you people deal with all this? Are there any depressed programmers/students in Jow Forums who made it into good careers by sacrificing their mental/whatever health for GitHub stars?
I don't know when the last time I had fun desu, I just study and work, study and work........
why not find someone on a hacking forum who sells github stars/forks and buy like 2k, get your project some fake notoriety, then let it grow organically from there
Jordan Long
github stars are just as meaningless as likes on facebook, unless you have some plan how to get "conversions" aka use it to sell some paid product or shill your blog or something
find some way to get in contact with your users and ask them for feedback and get them to contribute, an issue or a PR is usually 1000 times more valuable than a star
make a gameboy emulator if you think it's fun and have some cool ideas about how to do it or some weird new features, don't just do it for the internet dick points
Gabriel Carter
Well, desu, I was thinking about creating a sort-of GitHub botnet with well over 1000 PVA gmail accounts that I happen to have lying around but idk... It's risky that I could get my account banned (or all of the botnet banned) and wasting my time doing that
>an issue or a PR is usually 1000 times more valuable than a star As soon as I released the code, I got the first issue that I managed to fix in ~20 mins. It was a nice feeling knowing that people actually care about the stuff you make >don't just do it for the internet dick points Ikr, I should probably change my mentality about this
Elijah Kelly
Stars starts as people want to code for your project, but almost every single open source are made by one or few programmers well connected, instead of thousands anonymous contributors.
TL;DR just check ratio Stars / Contributors tab.
Nicholas Cruz
hey, 26 is a great start, my most popular one is only on 120 after 2 and a half years
Brandon Turner
real talk: as long as you search for confirmation from other people you will be depressed. instead of writing some project, work on yourself. good luck
if you can quit your job, i failed college which is the uk equivalent to highschool because i got depression and it was because of working. I quit my job near the end of college but it was too late to salvage my grades and i ended up finishing with no qualifications i did feel better after quitting tho and have managed to get into university after doing a foundation year. Seriously quit your job
