Find out who's showing intent in your space - track competitors’ GitHub repo stargazers and get notified in Slack.

GitHub repo stargazers are one of the most reliable public intent signals in developer communities:

It's an especially great place to find:

1. Prospective customers evaluating solutions
2. Devs solving similar problems
3. Potential hires!

And unlike most intent signals, stars are free, public and can be captured in real-time.

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

1. Look up new stargazers (across any repos - including competitors') every 15 mins
2. Finds their emails
3. Sends them to your Slack

This val does 2 things for you:

1. Get stargazer emails 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, which is public but buried.

2. Track competitors' stargazers 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 new ones.”

This val:

• Uses Val Town blob storage to remember the last stargazer count
• Calculates the last page of the stargazers list
• Fetches only the most recent X users when the count changes
• Runs every 15 minutes via cron to keep alerts fresh

This is a great way to get notified about new stargazers across many repos - regardless of whether you own them or not. You can then optionally push these into Slack, Clay, or your CRM.

• Remix this val, and add your SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL to your environment variables on the left sidebar (Guide)
• Configure the repos you want to track in cron.ts. Click Run, or 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!
• Enrich new stargazers with Clay to auto-score ICP leads
• Auto-create HubSpot/CRM records
• Alert high signal leads in #VIP-leads (More guides coming soon.)