Could be bots.

alexpadula 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not, it’s just how hackernews works. You’ll see new projects hit 1k-10k stars in a matter of a day. You can have the best project, best article to you but if everyone else doesn’t think so it’ll always be at the bottom. Some luck involved too. Bots upvoting a post not organically I doubt is gonna live long on first page.

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worldsavior 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The stars are on GitHub, they can come from somewhere else, e.g. the author himself buying stars.

	▲	Duendek86 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Hi, I'm the developer's father. Trust me, he hasn't bought a single star in his life—not even in Super Mario :p
	▲	alexpadula 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is hella common. Companies have too much money to spend.

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directmusic 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Definitely could be, but the dev has been posting updates on Twitter for a while now. It could be just some amount of hype they have built.

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