From 0 to 100 GitHub stars in a week

> I'm putting [HackerNews] on the end because for me so far has almost no effect. It is mainly because there are tons of links posted all the time and to make it on the first page is quite challenging.

For this kind of project I think adding 'Show HN' to the title might work. You need less upvotes and people expect launched, "look what I've build" and sometimes half finished projects there https://news.ycombinator.com/show (Not that blog post themselves usually don't qualify, often authors add a first comment "hey, author here, if you have questions" https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html)