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7/21/2026
The original headline is: "I Got Into a 49k-Star Curated List With 1 PR. The Prep Took 7 Weeks"

The original headline is: "I Got Into a 49k-Star Curated List With 1 PR. The Prep Took 7 Weeks"

Original: I Got Into a 49k-Star Curated List With 1 PR. The Prep Took 7 Weeks

Short summary

A founder shares the seven-week process of getting their AI summarization Chrome extension into a 49k-star curated GitHub list. The key insight was that acceptance depended on matching local format conventions in the README rather than product quality, and the merge was handled entirely by an automated Claude bot with no human review.

  • •Getting into curated GitHub lists is about matching local format conventions, not product quality
  • •Seven weeks of prep (reading format, grepping code) for a four-line markdown diff
  • •The merge was auto-approved by app/claude bot with no human interaction

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