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:

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.

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)

• 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