# storytold/craft-launcher

> A native Rust launcher for installing, updating and opening apps from the Craft App Suite (PhotoCraft, LightCraft, FilmCraft and others). It picks the right build for your OS and CPU, verifies SHA-256 checksums and tracks updates via GitHub releases.

- Magnitude: 6.0 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 167 total · +47 stars measured 2026-10-10, 09:27–12:12 UTC, ≈ 90 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-09 · Last push: 2026-10-10
- GitHub: https://github.com/storytold/craft-launcher · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/craft-launcher

## Useful for

- Install the needed Craft App Suite apps in one click with checksum verification
- Update installed Craft apps and the launcher itself without visiting release pages manually
- Open any app in the suite from a single window or the system tray icon

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-10 (UTC), 09:27–12:12: 120 → 167 stars (+47). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +90 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 167 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #136.
- About 219 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @PierrunoYT (385 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 67
- Issues and pull requests: 28
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 87 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 19
- Latest release: v0.1.2 (2026-10-10)

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-09 … 2026-10-10: 85, 47

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #136

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   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/storytold/vectorcraft.md
5. **storytold/gridcraft** — 7.7 · Breakout · Apps · Rust · +331 stars measured 2026-10-10, 00:31–12:12 UTC, ≈ 649 by evening
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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-10 12:23 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.