Did you buy GitHub stars? about localsend HOT 8 CLOSED

No worries @idjfia .
The Chinese users opened a lot of issues and helped to improve this app a lot. Thanks!

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The fact this was closed so quickly without shock or response to said issue is highly suspect

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I closed this issue so quickly because the "service" is so dumb that I feel personally attacked by your statement.

Why should someone buy Github stars? This repo is MIT licensed and anyone can copy this project and make it closed source / commercial. I don't care at all. I just wanted to have a file sharing solution because in 2023 every alternative is so clumsy to use.

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Nope, the "hype" was very natural in my opinion. You can checkout the amount of issues and pull requests in the recent days. I can also show you the download counts from Google Play and App Store if you want.

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I spent a lot of hard work into this project just to be insulted by someone because some random Indian guy picked a trending github repo and say "Here my service worked, buy my github service it" LOL.

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I understand the business model of this "service" a little bit if my repo was a library intended for other devs to use (Devs don't want a library nobody uses).

But LocalSend is a consumer app. Plain and simple. 99% of consumers don't care at all how many stars the "Github Repo" has. A fraction of users do care that it is FOSS, a fraction of a fraction care that it is published on F-Droid. But Github Stars? Wtf. This is like the worst way to spend money.

To be fair, I appreciate that my repo got a lot of likes recently. I only appreciate it because these likes are not fake. Even IF they are fake, then I couldn't care less. The contribution to human kind is determined by well engineered software not by the amount of likes!

So what's my final word? The Indian guy scammed you all - with a shady business model that does not make any sense - except for you.

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I shared LocalSend on Chinese website, maybe that's why the stars grow.

https://www.appinn.com/localsend/

https://meta.appinn.net/t/topic/39942

I'm so sorry that this may have caused troubles to developer.

Excuse me that my English is poor.

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I shared LocalSend on Chinese website, maybe that's why the stars grow.

appinn.com/localsend

meta.appinn.net/t/topic/39942

I'm so sorry that this may have caused troubles to developer.

Excuse me that my English is poor.

I can now say that by empirical evidence, Chinese users increase your star count by a tenfold. I've seen too many Chinese repos with way more stars than they should have 😅

Genuine question, I wonder why a month-old software shot up when a very similar app called Sharik (which I use and is also written in Flutter!) has already existed for a long time.

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