Investors & scouts

Spot rising repos before the round.

Stars are the earliest public signal of developer traction. WarmStars scans a rising repo and turns the people behind it (the founder, the first contributors, the engineers at name-brand companies who starred early) into named profiles with a way to reach out while it’s still pre-seed.

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Find rising projects and the people behind them.

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companyfollowersemailstarred_at
before the deck makes the rounds

By the time a repo trends, the round is half gone.

Star velocity moves before a deal memo exists. When a project adds two thousand stars in a week, the question isn’t whether it’s interesting. It’s who already knows. WarmStars scans the repo and turns the founder and the early stargazers into named people with company context and a public email where one exists, so you can send a specific, founder-to-investor note before the project ever opens a data room.

how it pays off

Built around what investors & scouts actually do next.

01

Traction, not hype

Star velocity is a real adoption curve, visible before a project pitches anyone. Track the repos in your thesis and see the move while it’s early.

02

The people, not just the repo

Scan the repo and turn the founder and standout early stargazers into named profiles: who they are, where they work, and the email to reach them where it’s public.

03

A warm, specific first email

You know the exact project and the exact week it took off. That beats a generic "loved your work" intro every other fund is also sending.

the fields you filter on

Read the signal behind the curve.

Every scanned stargazer carries the context that separates a founder worth a call from a drive-by star, and the means to reach them first.

companyfollowersemailstarred_at
  • company

    Where an early stargazer works: a tell for who the project is landing with, and which operators are paying attention.

  • followers

    Reach as a proxy for influence; the engineers others follow are the early believers worth a note.

  • starred_at

    When someone starred, so you can tell the day-one believers from the bandwagon and time your outreach.

  • email

    A public address for a founder-to-investor email that doesn’t route through a generic contact form.

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What a single star turns into.

A repo gaining 1,900 stars a week comes back with its founder, with company context and a direct email. The warm intro you’d otherwise wait on a mutual to make.

helix-labs/forge8.4k stars
8,390
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3,120
reachable
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Haru Takahashi
Founder · Helix Labs · ex-infra lead
San Francisco, CA
haru@helixlabs.devpublic profile

The next one is already gaining stars.

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