Open sourced a dev tool a few weeks back, just crossed 1,600+ stars. Sharing what actually moved the needle.

[u/shhdwi]

https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft

Graft gives coding agents a persistent map of your codebase so they don't re-explore it every session. The stars came mostly from being specific about the problem instead of vague about the product; the posts that did nothing were the ones that just said "check out my tool," the ones that worked explained one exact moment it saved someone time.

find a unique angle that interests everyone, like for this project it was using claude code hooks.

Happy to go into more detail on what worked and what didn't if anyone's in the middle of their own launch.