I tracked every GitHub traffic spike for my open source LLM proxy for 7 weeks. Then I did the exact same thing again, and it worked again.

When I shipped Trooper, a privacy-aware LLM proxy written in Go, I didn't have a marketing plan. I had GitHub traffic analytics and a habit of checking them obsessively. Seven weeks later, I have something more useful than a viral moment: a ranked table of every traffic spike, what caused each one,