---
title: "How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-lost-54k-github-stars-httpie-blog-izxesv7dt
source_url: https://httpie.io/blog/stardust
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-04-14T23:28:35.554Z
updated: 2022-04-14T23:28:35.555Z
tags: ["github"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 79
comments: 6
language: en
---

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# How we lost 54k GitHub stars – HTTPie blog

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 79 upvotes · 6 comments

## Summary

HTTPie for Terminal is celebrating 10 years since the first commit. Gaining 54k GitHub stars and 1k+ watchers. HTTPie was among the top 80 most popular public repos on GitHub overall; in the 99.99997203 percentile. It was incredible to see this humble tool attract a community of that magnitude.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://httpie.io/blog/stardust>

## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@andypiper** · 1 upvotes

> Wow. Make sure you re-follow httpie! Cautionary tale right here.

**@restray** · 1 upvotes

> Learning through others mistakes is one of a lesson! It explains, in the best way possible, how to make human-like-system and how to settle level of dangers! Please, take the time to read it !

**@prajwalprakash3** · 0 upvotes

> sed

**@qorbani** · 0 upvotes

> Wow! I was one of those 54k and I am glad I saw this. I just star again and hope they get lot more stars than before becathey absolutely deserve it 👌

**@takuan\_osho** · 0 upvotes

> Too sad episode.

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