Beyond GitHub Stars: Tracking Real Adoption of My Open-Source Projects
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I've been maintaining open-source tools for years. For most of that time, I had no idea if anyone was actually using them. Few stars. Not forks. Downloads — the thing that tells you someone ran your binary at least once. The problem GitHub shows download counts per release asset — but only the current total. No history. Was there a spike after that blog post you wrote? Did your last release get picked up faster than the one before? Is your project quietly dying, or just slow to s