A 16-year-old built GitHub Store to 12,500 stars in 6 months — here's how
By
Usmon Narzullayev
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Summary
A 16-year-old developer from Uzbekistan built GitHub Store — a cross-platform app store for GitHub releases — as an alternative to the heavy Play Store process. Starting with a one-week MVP sprint, the project grew to 12,500+ stars, 250,000+ updates served, and supports 13 languages across Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux. The story covers the journey, including the moment the developer almost quit at 3,000 stars.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe Play Store process was so heavy for what the project was worth, I built an alternative instead.
Six months later that alternative — GitHub Store — has 12,500+ stars, 250,000+ updates served, ships in 13 languages, runs on Android + Windows + macOS + Linux.
This is the story. Including the part where I almost quit.
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