Add This Cool Utility To Your GitHub README Today!

Just a little something to spice up your GitHub projects…

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Your README is the first thing a visitor sees upon opening the URL of your open-source project. Every other detail fades into the background as their focus is consumed in taking the first few seconds into getting to know what the project does and how it can be useful for them.

Providing useful information for the visitors and the users is of course an obvious requirement. However, nobody said that you couldn’t add a little extra flair to it on the sidelines.

If we’re being honest, visually pleasing READMEs do rock. So why not lean into that a bit more?

Let’s see about a neat little addition to your project’s README that will do the following:

Keep track of every stargazer of your repository.

Let’s get going 👇

First, create a little space at the bottom specifically for adding the usernames and their GitHub profile links to your README.

The best way to do this is how I’ve done it with my repository: Data Another Day (which also recently reached 100th star by the way :)