GitHub launch
Earn real GitHub stars, and keep them.
We open-source a useful part of your product, launch it to the developers who would use it, and grow its stars. The repo keeps sending traffic, links and AI citations long after we're done.
Our work
One repo we launched: 0 to 10K+ stars.
Trail-Code (formerly Graft)
trailhq/Trail-CodeAn open-source context layer that makes Claude Code, Cursor and Codex understand your codebase.
11,050
Live from GitHub, updated hourly · 0 when it went public, Jul 3, 2026
- Jul 3Repo goes public with 0 stars
- Aug 23#20 overall, #4 in TypeScript on Trendshift
- Aug 285,000 stars
- Sep+429 stars in a single day
- Oct 1910,435 stars
1M+
views on X at launch
#4
in TypeScript on Trendshift Trending
250K+
YouTube views, from videos others made
983
forks, from developers building on it
Why stars matter
Stars bring people in. The paid product earns the revenue.
Supabase108K
$170M
a year, from 250K+ paying customers
n8n205K
$100M
a year; the free version is its main way in
Next.js143K
$340M
a year for Vercel, the company behind it
GitHub is one of the most-cited sites in AI answers, so a repo people star is also a page ChatGPT reads.
Stars: GitHub, Oct 2026 · Revenue: Sacra, Forbes
How it works
From idea to trending.
01
Pick what to open-source
A client for your API or MCP, or a workflow your users already want. Your core stays private.
02
Build the repo
A README that sells in ten seconds, docs, a demo and an install that works first time.
03
Launch it
Hacker News, Product Hunt, Reddit and AI tool directories, plus creators who post about it, all disclosed.
04
Stars climb
Trending lists, backlinks and AI citations add up, and every user lands on your product.
Our GitHub work
Repos we've launched, and the posts that carried them.
Repo we launchedTrail-Code11,050stars now, live from GitHub. 0 to 10K+ stars in under four months.
Repo we launchedKilo Code27,844stars now, live from GitHub. 12.4K stars in 6 weeks.
Post by @NozelcodePhotoGIMP10.4Mviews on one creator post. Stars not measured.
Post by @yuliaiscOpenCut4.1Mviews on one creator post. Stars not measured.
Let's launch something worth talking about.
20 minutes. Tell us what you're launching, and we'll map the film, the repo and the AI answers around it.