I Built 51 GitHub Repos in 10 Days — Here Is What Actually Got Traffic

Ten days ago, I had zero public GitHub repos. Today I have 51. Here is what I learned about what actually gets discovered on GitHub — and what dies in obscurity. The Experiment I wanted to answer one question: Can you build a meaningful GitHub presence from scratch in under 2 weeks? Not with a viral project. Not with an existing audience. Starting from zero, with nothing but code and READMEs. The Results (Raw Numbers) Metric Day 1 Day 10 Repos 0 51 Stars 0 10 Forks 0 2 Clones 0 1,800+ Views 0 300+ 10 stars in 10 days with zero promotion outside Dev.to. Not viral, but real organic discovery. What Got Traffic (And What Didn't) Winner #1: Curated Lists My awesome-web-scraping-2026 repo got 142 views and 9 stars — the most of any repo. Why? People search GitHub for curated tool lists. "Awesome" repos are a known pattern that developers trust. Winner #2: Data Collections ai-market-research-reports got 1,668 clones and 478 unique visitors — orders of magnitude more than any code repo. People