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Got Hacking? Git Hacking.
We love Github! We love to hack! We love hanging out with other hackers and finding cool things to work on. Githacking is a way to find said cool projects. We just launched out of Philadelphia Startup Weekend.
Check us out, let us know what you think. Lots more to come.
- OwlHuntr 16y agoThis is awesome! I hope this rolls out soon. Brings in more incentive to support open-source
- btipling 16y agoI like the business model, but what prevents someone from looking at a developer's solution and incorporating it without paying the developer? Say the company is charged when they use the patching mechanism to bring developer's work into their product. What would stop them from simply going around this mechanism and just copy and paste the solution into their own repository? Also is the developer responsible for fixing bugs in their solution? Can a developer exploit the process by submitting buggy code they'll be paid extra to fix? Can a developer be required to fix bugs in their solution? If a company can't inspect code before they pay they can't be certain it's relatively bug free, if they can inspect the code they could use it without paying for it easily.
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoYou raise a great point. Still stuff to work out. This is the result of 54 hours of work (Philadelphia Startup Weekend) so definitely expect more in the coming weeks.
- Bluepojo 16y agoThe paid platform will be a bit more involved to get working, for sure. Right now we're focusing on getting this useful for open source projects to find collaborators then we'll worry about making it useful for companies.
- catch23 16y agoI think it's a great idea. Our company has various projects on github that could use a second pair of eyes other than our engineers. We wouldn't mind putting a bounty on it if someone were to commit a python library or two.
- koenigdavidmj 16y ago>What would stop them from simply going around this mechanism and just copy and paste the solution into their own repository? They could have a reputation system somewhat like that on Mechanical Turk: * You only pay someone if you like their solution. * People working on tasks get reputation for how well they are doing. * People offering tasks get reputation for how many people they are paying.
- wlk 16y agoI actually spent a longer moment looking for signup form, then I started to think what to input there (email, login, or what).
- codingjester 16y agoThanks. We're updating it right now. It'll be up in a few minutes.
- wlk 16y agoMaybe you can add gray text on input field saying 'enter your email' or something like that, that disappears when input field is clicked?
- codingjester 16y agoWe're on it. Thanks for the help. We're putting it in right now and should be up in a few.
- russell_h 16y agoThis seems like a cool idea. You might want to check with a lawyer about the logo up top though, thats definitely GitHub's octocat hiding behind Apple's Terminal.app logo.
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoYeah, working on that too. Our creative juices started to run dry after the weekend sprint. We'll refresh that in the coming days.
- scalyweb 16y agoMight want to make that sooner than just "in the coming days."
- mcav 16y agoOne thing I've learned from reading HN over the years: Few things kill the buzz of a new site like the introduction of legal/copyright issues.
- Raphael 16y agoI don't see the big deal; it's cosmetic. The logo's easy to remove. I can't imagine significant damages. Legal issues are only a problem when the content is infringing, such as video uploads.
- mcav 16y agoI agree, it shouldn't overshadow other stuff. But that's the odd thing about those kinds of issues -- they tend to overshadow the work anyway.
- kenneth_reitz 16y agoNo need to consult a lawyer, just open an issue at http://support.github.com http://support.github.com and ask if it's okay.
- scalyweb 16y agoGreat idea! Where is my e-mail going? What are you planning to do with it? Also, there is no identification on who is running the project.
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoHi. We're Chris (@chrisbaglieri), John (@codingjester), Josiah (@bluepojo), and Aaron (@aaronfeng). This company was born over the course of 54 hours at Philadelphia Startup Weekend. The emails will be used once and only once, to announce when we're open to the public.
- scalyweb 16y agoThank you. Perhaps add that to the site and you'll give off a lot more "warm and fuzzies."
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoAdded a quick note about only using emails once and only once. We'll add an about page in the coming day profiling each of us.
- pdelgallego 16y agoCongrats for a great startup weekend. I love the idea. A couple of months ago I created gistcube[1], It was a weekend project to learn a bit about Mongodb and Sinatra. Gistcube is a way to discover interesting gist in github. You can vote up, add to favorites, tag gists, and alos sign up to interesting/tags gist using rss. [1] http://gistcube.com http://gistcube.com
- Raphael 16y agoCool drop shadow.
- pdelgallego 16y agoThx man, was my first attempt to design anything.
- axod 16y agoNot really sure what this is/does. Can someone summarize? Is it search/social thing built on github?
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoSocial is a little misleading. It's more about connecting developers to projects. For contributors, it's about finding projects that would be of interest to them. For maintainers, it's about finding developers to fill the needs of their projects.
- js2 16y agoI would like to suggest that folks consider working on git itself. The git mailing list is very friendly and supportive and you will be making a valuable contribution to the git community. You'll also have an opportunity to brush up your C skills with guidance from some excellent C hackers. If you aren't a C coder, you can help to improve the documentation (really, just pick a man page, there are many that can use improving). Or, look at it as an opportunity to learn C -- some parts of git are quite advanced, but there's also lots of areas that are easy to work on. See the git wiki for some areas that can use love: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Janitor https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ToDo https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Wishlist (Sadly the wiki is down right now, so please paste those links into google and click the cached link.) So go on, get yourself listed on http://git-scm.com/about http://git-scm.com/about :)
- wyclif 16y agoThank you for this-- just the reply I was looking for. Out of curiosity, which man pages need the most work right now?
- js2 16y agoHow about the fetch and push man pages: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fetch.ht... http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.html http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-push.htm... Even the summaries are terrible: git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository git-push - Update remote refs along with associated objects Now, I haven't been a git newbie in ages, but I imagine a beginner asking "what is this objects and refs about?" How about: git-fetch - Download changes from another repository git-push - Upload changes to another repository (Warning: there will be lots of back-and-forth on the mailing list about doc changes. Old timers tend to want the man pages to be technically correct, even though I think this makes the documentation harder on beginners. I suppose the argument is that the man pages are reference type documentation, but I still think there's lots of room for improvement.)
- peignoir 16y agoAwesome
- JohnnyBrown 16y agoThis is neat, i intend to use it. I've been thinking recently it would be great if there was "OkCupid for code" and once you have enough data to predict good matches for people <=> projects you could do some interesting things.
- mkramlich 16y agothat page is purdy but it really should explain what it's about. what's the plan. all i can tell is that it involves Git and they want an email. to be more specific: what is it beyond what we already have today with something like GitHub?
- chrisbaglieri 16y agoFor developers, we're about connecting them to projects that they'll likely be interested in contributing to; these projects may or may not be most forked or trending. A lot of repository identification is word of mouth which, for those on on the outer rings of the open source community, may be lacking. We want to change that. For maintainers, we're about finding developers to fill the needs of their projects. Open sourcing is step one, promoting and keeping traction can be tough. We want to arm maintainers with more to help accomplish this. For businesses that rely on the open source code contributors and maintainers support, we want to provide a platform that they can leverage whether it's support or issue resolution. Businesses win because they get fixes, for example. Maintainers and contributors win being rewarded for their efforts. We have several other ideas we're exploring; lot's more to come.
- mkramlich 16y agothanks! i recommend putting something like what you said on the project's home page, or, just a link off of it.
- Bluepojo 16y agoWe ended up winning 1st prize for Startup Weekend (we posted this in advance of the demo). Here's our presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OhsAUMWbM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1OhsAUMWbM
- farnsworth 16y agoText is cut off on the right side of the boxes on iPhone. I love the idea though.
- codingjester 16y agoShit. We totally didn't even think about mobile our bad. Once we get some sleep and probably get back from our day jobs, we'll see what we can do about it.
- farnsworth 16y agoNot a huge problem, just polishing.
- albertzeyer 16y agoI really hate the global web proxy at my university (RWTH Aachen). (1, MALWARE, Phishing, Domain has unusually high traffic volume for a very recent registration. Identified as a phishing or spam-related site., BLOCK-MALWARE, 0x0b216460, 1296449561.941, QAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAG/8ACP8AAAD/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA=, http://githacking.com/)