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DevHub: TweetDeck for GitHub – Android, iOS and Web with 99% Code Sharing

149 points by pvinis 8y ago

ryanwaggoner 8y ago
I found this title really hard to parse, just FYI.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Yeah, this all needs a human friendly title and tagline. The "Why" section is the first thing I should see on the GitHub page, instead of the buzzword soup I see.
- chrissnell 8y ago
  Agreed. Calling this "<this> for <that>" always rubs me the wrong way. Just describe the product. How does TweetDeck describe their product?
- pvinis 8y ago
  I agree, but I wanted to put their tagline, as I am not connected with the creators, I just found the project and really liked it.
BillinghamJ 8y ago
Not sure why you'd promote the code sharing to potential users. Just seems like a red flag to me!
- brabara 8y ago
  Agree. To me this is like saying "use this because it is written in X". I'd rather use this based on the feature set that improves this client against competitors.
mychael 8y ago
I spent like 2 mins looking at this and I still don't know what I'm looking at.
- saagarjha 8y ago
  It’s a GitHub client.
  - Sujan 8y ago
    GitHub notifications client it seems. Opens everything in a new tab for me. (which is still nice!)
cercatrova 8y ago
Interesting, seems useful. I don't use GitHub enough to necessitate needing an entire TweetDesk like solution, but I can see the practicality for those that maintain repositories. The license however, for anyone looking into hosting this themselves, is not open source, but only source available. Here is the complete license (without the emojis, looks like they don't parse on HN): # License Copyright (c) 2018 [Bruno Lemos](https://twitter.com/brunolemos https://twitter.com/brunolemos). This is project provided as is without any warranties.<br/> By using this app you agree with its [privacy](PRIVACY.md) policy and the license below: - You are encouraged to use, share and submit pull requests with improvements; - You are allowed to use the official hosted version ([devhubapp.com](https://devhubapp.com/) https://devhubapp.com/)) on your company or commercial projects; - You are allowed to use the source code for personal non-commercial purposes only, like studing or contributing; - You are not allowed to distribute this app anywhere, neither changed versions of this app, including but not limited to Apple Store, Google Play or Web; Changes to the source code can only be used locally, taking in consideration the other points of this License; - You are not allowed to charge people for this app, neither bypass its paid features, if any;
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- rjzzleep 8y ago
  It's clearly open source. What you mean to say is that it's not Free Software. Don't get me wrong I'm an ally of open source, but the very notion that open source or free software are somehow protected words is funny by itself. Someone created a decent app, posted the source for it and allows you to play around with it. Be grateful, or ignore it, or bash it for technical reasons, but this "I don't actually care about the software I just came to say it's not really open source", because that one mention in the readme is odd to me. I'm kind of assuming it might turn open core at some point in the future, but for now it's not. Edit: I'm fully aware that the comment is controversial and not happily received by the HN community, but contrary to popular belief the open source initiative has no copyright claim to the words open source, merely to the open source initiative phrase. No downvotes will change that. But even if you use the phrases by opensource.com: The term "open source" refers to something people can modify - fork and share - pull request because its design is publicly accessible. I fully get why someone would dislike the strict way he defined his license terms, but it's still in accordance with modify and share. "If you move beyond modifying the code and decide to distribute your modified version (or the original), that is the point at which there may be compliance issues with the open source license. You only need to check you are passing on the same rights to others as you received with the original code. " You can distribute it just fine using the pull-requests. Again, it's fine to be against this, but "you're not allowing me to distribute it the way i want therefore it can't be open source" is a moot point. I'm not argueing for his license, but I'm against the senseless bashing of licenses I disagree with.
executive 8y ago
Multiple Twitter Accounts for GitHub?
elkos 8y ago
To be honest I would be very interested on web-applications that connect to Gitlab services
- duncan-donuts 8y ago
  What sorts of things would you be interested in? I’ve been building a product that can improve product quality by analyzing the relationship and history between source code and tickets. We use gitlab and have always treated gitlab as a first class citizen.
  - mdaniel 8y ago
    I want a tool that allows visibility across projects, because this "keeping track of status by email" is for the birds. The "Issues", "Merge Requests", and "Todos" across the tab bar isn't helpful in the same way that I would _imagine_ a TweetDeck-ish layout by project or by item type would be
fangxing 8y ago
Can't find a Android download link
- brunolemos 8y ago
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhubapp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhubapp
stu_k 8y ago
Interesting project! Is there a writeup on how you architected the project to share 99% of code? I'd be really interested in reading that! From a skim it looks like React + React Native.
- ryanbertrand 8y ago
  It uses React Native Web which allows to share more UI code. Pretty cool!
brunoborges 8y ago
Seems like a great way to hijack GitHub accounts. The amount of permissions the app requests is massive.
- joshfriend 8y ago
  Not to mention all of the extra analytics that it collects and submits to a google analytics account
orliesaurus 8y ago
I really like the interface, then again I am used to Tweetdeck. I wish when clicking on something it wouldn't immediately link me to a new tab in github, instead a nicely wrapped view of the issue or comment staying within the apo would be more beneficial to me. Anywho, great start! Also I been using octobox.io for notifications and it's a very elegant solution to GitHub's current mess
asien 8y ago
Will never signup to this thing. No clear plan how to monetize project , ask 100% of github accounts permission ? Sounds like a terrible idea of something that could later be sold to companies selling advertising.
- augbog 8y ago
  Not sure if the creator wants to monetize necessarily. He's a huge fan of open source and contributes to some really big projects. I will say the permissions was a turn off for me as well though
  - gempir 8y ago
    Then why is the license not something Open Source projects usually use like MIT, Apache etc. This is barely "Open Source"
  - manmal 8y ago
    Yes why does the app ask for private permissions then? Open source projects are public.
mayneack 8y ago
This is pretty cool. I could definitely see myself liking this interface as I already like tweetdeck. I'm not quite sure it's worth all the access I need to grant for my account though.
staticelf 8y ago
After like.. a couple of minutes I think I got it now. Tweetdeck is another popular app and this is kind of like it, but for Github instead of Twitter? Really confusing title for someone who have no clue about what tweetdeck was, which I assume most of us don't. Still doesn't understand what it actually does for me since I have no clue what tweetdeck does?
- k__ 8y ago
  Yes, it's a Twitter like UI for Github comments/issues/etc.
manmal 8y ago
Access to all the production code I‘ve written in recent years? How about no? I hope nobody in my connected organizations signs up with that permission. Those are potentially millions of Euros of value (not only my own code!), exposed to someone I don’t have a contract with. I signed up with public permissions, that should be fine. But please just remove the private part. It’s plain irresponsible even if there is no malicious intent. What if someone stole all the tokens from their DB?
benj111 8y ago
So how do you measure 'code sharing'? Most languages will handle file opening transparently, regardless of OS. Is that code sharing? What about the extra bit of logic you have to tack on because file system Y doesn't handle Z? It also occurs to me that I would rather have 98% code sharing, nicely encapsulated in 1 file, rather than 99% spread over 101 files (not an accusation aimed at this code base). Still seems impressive.
k__ 8y ago
Made with React, React-Native and React-Native-Web, nice.
Sujan 8y ago
Looks great! Does it do more than display notifications in a different/better way? Issue triage or anything like that?

149 points by pvinis 8y ago

ryanwaggoner 8y ago

I found this title really hard to parse, just FYI.

giancarlostoro 8y ago
Yeah, this all needs a human friendly title and tagline. The "Why" section is the first thing I should see on the GitHub page, instead of the buzzword soup I see.
chrissnell 8y ago
Agreed. Calling this "<this> for <that>" always rubs me the wrong way. Just describe the product. How does TweetDeck describe their product?
pvinis 8y ago
I agree, but I wanted to put their tagline, as I am not connected with the creators, I just found the project and really liked it.

BillinghamJ 8y ago

Not sure why you'd promote the code sharing to potential users. Just seems like a red flag to me!

brabara 8y ago
Agree. To me this is like saying "use this because it is written in X". I'd rather use this based on the feature set that improves this client against competitors.

mychael 8y ago

I spent like 2 mins looking at this and I still don't know what I'm looking at.

saagarjha 8y ago
It’s a GitHub client.
- Sujan 8y ago
  GitHub notifications client it seems. Opens everything in a new tab for me. (which is still nice!)

cercatrova 8y ago

Interesting, seems useful. I don't use GitHub enough to necessitate needing an entire TweetDesk like solution, but I can see the practicality for those that maintain repositories. The license however, for anyone looking into hosting this themselves, is not open source, but only source available. Here is the complete license (without the emojis, looks like they don't parse on HN): # License Copyright (c) 2018 [Bruno Lemos](https://twitter.com/brunolemos https://twitter.com/brunolemos). This is project provided as is without any warranties.<br/> By using this app you agree with its [privacy](PRIVACY.md) policy and the license below: - You are encouraged to use, share and submit pull requests with improvements; - You are allowed to use the official hosted version ([devhubapp.com](https://devhubapp.com/) https://devhubapp.com/)) on your company or commercial projects; - You are allowed to use the source code for personal non-commercial purposes only, like studing or contributing; - You are not allowed to distribute this app anywhere, neither changed versions of this app, including but not limited to Apple Store, Google Play or Web; Changes to the source code can only be used locally, taking in consideration the other points of this License; - You are not allowed to charge people for this app, neither bypass its paid features, if any;

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rjzzleep 8y ago
It's clearly open source. What you mean to say is that it's not Free Software. Don't get me wrong I'm an ally of open source, but the very notion that open source or free software are somehow protected words is funny by itself. Someone created a decent app, posted the source for it and allows you to play around with it. Be grateful, or ignore it, or bash it for technical reasons, but this "I don't actually care about the software I just came to say it's not really open source", because that one mention in the readme is odd to me. I'm kind of assuming it might turn open core at some point in the future, but for now it's not. Edit: I'm fully aware that the comment is controversial and not happily received by the HN community, but contrary to popular belief the open source initiative has no copyright claim to the words open source, merely to the open source initiative phrase. No downvotes will change that. But even if you use the phrases by opensource.com: The term "open source" refers to something people can modify - fork and share - pull request because its design is publicly accessible. I fully get why someone would dislike the strict way he defined his license terms, but it's still in accordance with modify and share. "If you move beyond modifying the code and decide to distribute your modified version (or the original), that is the point at which there may be compliance issues with the open source license. You only need to check you are passing on the same rights to others as you received with the original code. " You can distribute it just fine using the pull-requests. Again, it's fine to be against this, but "you're not allowing me to distribute it the way i want therefore it can't be open source" is a moot point. I'm not argueing for his license, but I'm against the senseless bashing of licenses I disagree with.

executive 8y ago

Multiple Twitter Accounts for GitHub?

elkos 8y ago

To be honest I would be very interested on web-applications that connect to Gitlab services

duncan-donuts 8y ago
What sorts of things would you be interested in? I’ve been building a product that can improve product quality by analyzing the relationship and history between source code and tickets. We use gitlab and have always treated gitlab as a first class citizen.
- mdaniel 8y ago
  I want a tool that allows visibility across projects, because this "keeping track of status by email" is for the birds. The "Issues", "Merge Requests", and "Todos" across the tab bar isn't helpful in the same way that I would _imagine_ a TweetDeck-ish layout by project or by item type would be

fangxing 8y ago

Can't find a Android download link

brunolemos 8y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhubapp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devhubapp

stu_k 8y ago

Interesting project! Is there a writeup on how you architected the project to share 99% of code? I'd be really interested in reading that! From a skim it looks like React + React Native.

ryanbertrand 8y ago
It uses React Native Web which allows to share more UI code. Pretty cool!

brunoborges 8y ago

Seems like a great way to hijack GitHub accounts. The amount of permissions the app requests is massive.

joshfriend 8y ago
Not to mention all of the extra analytics that it collects and submits to a google analytics account

orliesaurus 8y ago

I really like the interface, then again I am used to Tweetdeck. I wish when clicking on something it wouldn't immediately link me to a new tab in github, instead a nicely wrapped view of the issue or comment staying within the apo would be more beneficial to me. Anywho, great start! Also I been using octobox.io for notifications and it's a very elegant solution to GitHub's current mess

asien 8y ago

Will never signup to this thing. No clear plan how to monetize project , ask 100% of github accounts permission ? Sounds like a terrible idea of something that could later be sold to companies selling advertising.

augbog 8y ago
Not sure if the creator wants to monetize necessarily. He's a huge fan of open source and contributes to some really big projects. I will say the permissions was a turn off for me as well though
- gempir 8y ago
  Then why is the license not something Open Source projects usually use like MIT, Apache etc. This is barely "Open Source"
- manmal 8y ago
  Yes why does the app ask for private permissions then? Open source projects are public.

mayneack 8y ago

This is pretty cool. I could definitely see myself liking this interface as I already like tweetdeck. I'm not quite sure it's worth all the access I need to grant for my account though.

staticelf 8y ago

After like.. a couple of minutes I think I got it now. Tweetdeck is another popular app and this is kind of like it, but for Github instead of Twitter? Really confusing title for someone who have no clue about what tweetdeck was, which I assume most of us don't. Still doesn't understand what it actually does for me since I have no clue what tweetdeck does?

k__ 8y ago
Yes, it's a Twitter like UI for Github comments/issues/etc.

manmal 8y ago

Access to all the production code I‘ve written in recent years? How about no? I hope nobody in my connected organizations signs up with that permission. Those are potentially millions of Euros of value (not only my own code!), exposed to someone I don’t have a contract with. I signed up with public permissions, that should be fine. But please just remove the private part. It’s plain irresponsible even if there is no malicious intent. What if someone stole all the tokens from their DB?

benj111 8y ago

So how do you measure 'code sharing'? Most languages will handle file opening transparently, regardless of OS. Is that code sharing? What about the extra bit of logic you have to tack on because file system Y doesn't handle Z? It also occurs to me that I would rather have 98% code sharing, nicely encapsulated in 1 file, rather than 99% spread over 101 files (not an accusation aimed at this code base). Still seems impressive.

k__ 8y ago

Made with React, React-Native and React-Native-Web, nice.

Sujan 8y ago

Looks great! Does it do more than display notifications in a different/better way? Issue triage or anything like that?