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 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

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. This is technically 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 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
• Run this val every 15 minutes via cron so you have the latest and greatest :)

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
• 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!
• ENRICHMENT ENRICHMENT ENRICHMENT! Enrich new stargazers with Clay to filter signal from noise
• Auto-create HubSpot/CRM records
• Alert high signal leads in #VIP-leads

Interested in more GTM workflows? You can check out our Templates, or let me know what you want to see next.