Comment by fontain

https://x.com/garrytan/status/2045404377226285538

“gstack is not a hypothetical. It’s a product with real users:

75,000+ GitHub stars in 5 weeks

14,965 unique installations (opt-in telemetry, so real number is at least 2x higher)

305,309 skill invocations recorded since January 2026

~7,000 weekly active users at peak”

GitHub stars are a meaningless metric but I don’t think a high star count necessarily indicates bought stars. I don’t think Garry is buying stars for his project.

People star things because they want to be seen as part of the in-crowd, who knows about this magical futuristic technology, not because they care to use it.

Some companies are buying stars, sure, but the methodology for identifying it in this article is bad.