Hey everyone. Will here.

Just a quick post as Nanocoder just crossed 2,000 GitHub stars. We launched just under a year ago, so this felt like a good moment to mark it, and to talk briefly about what the number actually represents.

The short version: 10,000+ downloads a month, a growing core team, and a community of contributors who've shown up consistently since day one. The numbers aren't large by the standards of well-funded projects, but we started from nothing and kept going, and that counts for something.

In fact, I first posted about Nanocoder right here on Reddit, not expecting it to do much, to be honest - but, it's been so well received by almost everyone and for that I can't thank you enough.

**What Nanocoder is**

Nanocoder is an open-source AI coding tool built by the Nano Collective, a community-led group of developers building AI tooling that's privacy-respecting, local-first, and open for all. No cloud models required if you don't want, no account with us, no data leaving your environment unless you choose it to and no price tag or subscription.

**What the stars mean**

Some say that GitHub stars are a vanity metric and I'm sure that's true, but in open-source they're meaningful. Most people who use a tool never interact with its community. The people who star it are the ones who cared enough to register that they might want to come back. That attention is what keeps a project alive.

The 2,000 stars on Nanocoder represent contributors who've filed bugs, opened PRs, reviewed code at odd hours, and provided honest feedback about what was broken. That work doesn't show up in the star count, but it's the reason the project is still here.

**How to get involved**

If this kind of work sounds interesting:

* The project is at [github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder](https://github.com/Nano-Collective/nanocoder)
* Real-time chat is on the [Nano Collective Discord](https://discord.gg/ktPDV6rekE)
* Everything starts at [nanocollective.org](https://nanocollective.org)

Thanks to the community as always. The rest of this year is going to be exciting.

Nanocoder hit 2,000 GitHub stars 🌟