Come up with an interesting idea, spend n number of days working on idea, get to the front page of hackernews, have thousands of eyeballs on your thing...Spend 0 time on the readme and have everyone take a half second glance, not know what the thing is or does and move their attention else where. Let this be a lesson to everyone to spend some time on your readme's...https://github.com/matiassingers/awesome-readme