GitHub Stargazers Alert

Every GitHub star is intent:

• Prospects evaluating tools like yours
• Engineers solving the same problem
• Potential hires

This val turns public stars into qualified leads for you - even for repos you don’t own.

If you're only interested in getting notified about your own stargazers, you can set up a webhook in GitHub directly.

There are 2 major limitations to that:

1. You can't track repos you don't own
2. You can't backfill stargazers from the past - which are often incredibly valuable to startups trying to find qualified leads

This val does 2 things for you:

GitHub won’t let you set up webhooks for repos you don’t own, and the stargazers API lists results oldest -> newest (no starred_at sorting). That means you can’t easily pull just the most recent stargazers.

So instead, we:

• Use blob storage to remember the last stargazer count
• Calculate the last page of the stargazers list
• Fetch only the most recent X users when the count changes
• Poll updates every 15 minutes (you can change this interval)

The GitHub stargazers API won’t give you email addresses. This val works around that by checking each stargazer’s past commits - commits are associated with an email address. This is technically public, but buried.

• Remix this val
• Add your SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL (Guide)
• Add repos you want to track in cron.ts
• Click Run to test - it'll auto-run every 15 minutes

• You can backfill stargazers and enrich them - which are often incredibly valuable when you're to find qualified leads!
• ENRICHMENT ENRICHMENT ENRICHMENT! Enrich stargazers with Clay to filter signal from noise
• Auto-create HubSpot/CRM records
• Post high signal ICP leads in #VIP-leads