3 months building a Docker CLI tool. 2 GitHub stars. Both are me and my girlfriend.

I built DockSlim — a lightweight Docker management CLI because Docker Desktop eats 4GB of RAM on my MacBook and I figured other devs were annoyed too. Spent 3 months writing it in Rust, clean code, proper tests, nice docs.

Fellow developers would find it, try it, star it, maybe contribute. I thought 100 stars in the first month was realistic. Some dev tools blow up overnight on HN.

3 months in. 2 GitHub stars. One is my account, one is my girlfriend who doesn't even code. Posted on Hacker News — zero comments, instantly fell off. Posted on r/docker — one reply: "just use lazydocker." Tried r/commandline — auto-removed for self-promotion. I'm mass of silence.

I rewrote the README three times. Added a fancy GIF demo. Created a comparison table vs Docker Desktop and Lazydocker. Made installation a one-liner. Nothing changed. I don't know if the tool sucks or if nobody knows it exists.