I've had a GitHub account for a while, mostly for private projects and work. Every now and then I'd push a small library I'd built, pick up a few stars from a course… but breaking 10 without a social following or friends to share it felt practically impossible. Something experience would later confirm.

I saw YouTubers whose course boilerplates and templates hitting 500 stars and set myself a challenge: get at least 100 stars on a project, improve my portfolio, and get some hands-on experience building a brand.

The idea: cleaning Python environments

I work with a lot of ML and deep learning projects. That means virtual environments eating up disk space, __pycache__ folders everywhere, and all that noise that — when you're working on-site without GitHub access for security reasons — makes copying an entire directory a nightmare. The usual fix:

find . -name "__pycache__" | xargs rm -rf

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I decided to turn those cleanup scripts into a TUI/CLI tool called killpy .…