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Graphify Labs reached 100,000 GitHub stars while still in its YC batch, making it…

2026-08-02 · 00:36 UTC ·@snowmaker ·0 min read

Brief

Graphify Labs achieved 100,000 GitHub stars while still in its YC batch, marking it as the first YC company to reach that mark during a batch. The @graphify repo is credited to the first Indian developer to ship a 100k‑star project and is only the fifth YC‑backed open‑source project to hit 100k, a milestone the author describes as the point where stars stop being mere vanity.

Why it matters

Graphify Labs reached 100,000 GitHub stars while still in its YC batch, making it the first Y Combinator company to do so during a batch.

Key details

  • The @graphify repository hit 100,000 stars; its creator is identified as the first Indian developer to ship a 100k‑star repo and Graphify is only the 5th YC‑backed open‑source project to reach 100k.
  • Author Safi framed the milestone as a shift from vanity to substantive signal, writing “Stars are vanity until they aren’t. 100k is where they stop being vanity.”
Source evidence

Graphify Labs is the first YC company to hit 100K github stars during the batch.

Safi (@safishamsii)

100,000 stars on @graphify
First Indian developer to ship a 100k-star repo.
Only the 5th @ycombinator -backed open-source project to ever hit 100k.

Stars are vanity until they aren’t.
100k is where they stop being vanity.

— https://nitter.net/safishamsii/status/2083519653020909656#m