How I Got 6 GitHub Stars Without a Launch Event

6 GitHub stars doesn't sound like much. But I didn't run a Show HN. I didn't launch on Product Hunt. I didn't email any newsletters. I just published an npm package and watched what drove people to the GitHub repo. The source of those stars surprised me. The setup textlens is a zero-dependency text analysis library for Node.js. It launched March 4. One command gets you Flesch-Kincaid readability scores, sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and sentence statistics — no API calls, no setup, no config file. npm install textlens const textlens = require ( ' textlens ' ); const result = textlens . analyze ( ' Your text here. ' ); console . log ( result . readability . fleschKincaid ); // { grade: 8.1, readingEase: 62 } As of today: 6 GitHub stars, 82 npm downloads this week, 15 dev.to articles totaling 355 views. What I expected to drive stars The strategy going in: publish a lot of dev.to content, get readers, convert some to GitHub stars. I published 15 articles over 12 days. 355 total