From 785c459dd5fad90be571d8a6b04ae5b1811c099e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julius Marminge <51714798+juliusmarminge@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 12:15:07 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] feat(marketing): fetch GitHub stars at build time

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts | 20 +++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts b/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts
index 8b42f400512e9..c4cc8aca59f22 100644
--- a/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts
+++ b/apps/marketing/src/lib/site.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,25 @@ export const IOS_APP_STORE_URL =
 export const ANDROID_PLAY_STORE_URL =
   "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t3tools.t3code";
 
+// Runs at build time, so each deploy picks up the current count.
+async function fetchGithubStars(): Promise<string> {
+  const token = process.env.GITHUB_TOKEN;
+  try {
+    const response = await fetch("https://api.github.com/repos/pingdotgg/t3code", {
+      headers: token ? { Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` } : {},
+    });
+    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`GitHub API responded ${response.status}`);
+    const { stargazers_count: stars } = (await response.json()) as { stargazers_count: number };
+    return stars < 1000 ? String(stars) : `${Math.floor(stars / 1000)}k+`;
+  } catch (error) {
+    // A deploy must not ship a made-up count; offline dev should still render.
+    if (import.meta.env.PROD) throw new Error("Could not fetch GitHub stars", { cause: error });
+    console.warn("Could not fetch GitHub stars", error);
+    return "?";
+  }
+}
+
 export const MARKETING_STATS = {
-  githubStars: "40k+",
+  githubStars: await fetchGithubStars(),
   users: "500,000",
 } as const;