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GitHub Accelerator: our first cohort and what’s next

233 points by sebg 4y ago

255kb 4y ago
I'm thrilled to see my project (https://mockoon.com https://mockoon.com) being part of this first cohort! It's a great opportunity but it's also good for open-source projects in general. It can only contribute to make our industry more sustainable. Here is the list of the 20 projects that have been selected: - https://github.com/analogjs/analog https://github.com/analogjs/analog: Analog is a fullstack meta-framework to build applications and websites with Angular - https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine: The Python web framework to build production-grade apps - https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx: Makes AJAX, Web Sockets, etc. available directly in HTML - https://github.com/code-hike/codehike https://github.com/code-hike/codehike: Tools for building all types of code walkthroughs: blogs, docs, slides, tutorials, etc. - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus: Friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, written in Rust. - https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree: Connecting with your audience with a single link, showcasing your content and projects. - https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D: Design CAD to democratize and de-centralize fashion design & production. - https://github.com/fastai/nbdev https://github.com/fastai/nbdev: Increase developer productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow. - https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks: Open-source Qualtrics alternative - https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Cross-platform application to comfortably monitor and analyse network traffic - https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter. - https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon: Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to design and run mock REST APIs. - https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt: An intuitive framework for building web applications, built for the edge. - https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app: A dev-tool for web developers that aid in faster responsive web page development. - https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data - https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder: The scientific Python development environment - https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry: A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations - https://github.com/termux/termux-app https://github.com/termux/termux-app: A terminal emulator for Android that provides 2000+ linux packages to code on phone - https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly: Poly is a fast, well tested Go package for engineering organisms. - https://github.com/trpc/trpc https://github.com/trpc/trpc: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Never write another API contract again. Edit: formatting and updated repo links
- beanclap 4y ago
  super cool congrats :)
- sphars 4y ago
  Exciting to see both Termux and HTMX be selected, looking forward to what comes of it
- dmix 4y ago
  Looks like Github linked to Nuxt's old repo and not https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt
  - 255kb 4y ago
    Thanks for noticing, will check with owner and GitHub team.
- theturtletalks 4y ago
  So glad to see codehike here! Pomber has been building amazing open-source projects and codehike will be a game changer for documentation.
  - pomber 4y ago
    Thank you!
    - theturtletalks 4y ago
      No problem man. I don't know if you remember, but you helped us add Codehike to our documentation some time back!
qbasic_forever 4y ago
Very cool, this looks like a great list of projects. I like that it's not a bunch of well-known and big names. It looks like stuff that is just getting traction and having a push with dedicated time to maintain could be a huge benefit for them.
- beanclap 4y ago
  I agree! At the same time its cool that they also picked a few proven projects like Nuxt or tRPC. Good mix :)
nro337 4y ago
Awesome to see trpc and Mockoon on here!
- 255kb 4y ago
  Thanks! I am glad to be in this list too (Mockoon) :)
paranoidxprod 4y ago
Great to see Dioxus there. I was looking at Rust GUI libraries and Dioxus seemed like one of the most interesting to me, but still felt pretty early in development. I did notice in their 0.3 release post they mentioned "This release represents an absolutely massive jump forward for the Dioxus ecosystem. We hope to ship future features more quickly into stable now that many of the desired breaking changes have been incorporated into the core library." so I am excited to see how the project progresses!
- erlend_sh 4y ago
  Parts of the Dioxus stack are also becoming framework-agnostic, like Blitz the “High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered by WGPU“: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
  - jkelleyrtp 4y ago
    A full list of projects that are being spun out as framework-agnostic: - taffy: flexbox+css grid https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy - blitz: html/css renderer https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz - sledgehammer: faster than websys bindings https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/ https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/ - native-core: salsa but for UI trees https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/native-core https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/na... - tui: native-core+terminal rendering We want to make sure every part of the stack is available for anyone.
- jkelleyrtp 4y ago
  We're super excited about the funding. It's letting us bring on some of the core team full time for the summer and part time for the year. Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack.
  - quaunaut 4y ago
    > Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack. What of Phoenix are you looking to tackle?
dmix 4y ago
I've always been curious what sort of relationship https://nuxtjs.org/ https://nuxtjs.org/ has with Next.js and whether they will significantly diverge as their own entity (I haven't had the opportunity to use Nuxt 3 yet). Especially with all of the noise around projects like Remix. Happy to see them on the list none-the-less.
- dlxfoo 4y ago
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- re-thc 4y ago
  Next is for React and Nuxt is for Vue...
  - dmix 4y ago
    Well obviously (I'm surprised two people have replied to state this fact), Nuxt's whole pitch was literally "Next for Vue". I was talking about conceptually diverging instead of just being inspired by Next.js, given recent developments with Remix and https://astro.build/ https://astro.build/.
- rk06 4y ago
  Nuxt is a separate entity from next. Nuxt is meant for same use cases as Next (or Remix) but their implementation is tied to how Vue works. If they find remix API better, they are free to steal it.
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nop_slide 4y ago
Hyped to see htmx and datasette!
pankajdoharey 4y ago
Its like Google summer of code but better.
- riffraff 4y ago
  GSoC was about bringing young people into FLOSS, this is helping people who actually maintain those projects. I think they are vastly different, tho I am unsure which one would be more valuable in the long run.
mickael-kerjean 4y ago
That looks awesome, when is the next batch coming? What are the conditions for the funding? My OSS project is a Dropbox like UI for S3, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB and pretty much every other file transfer protocol: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash Would that fit in your scope?
- ignoramous 4y ago
  Any FOSS project you're open to work full-time is within scope, iirc. Btw, what you're building sounds very similar to spacedrive: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
  - tough 4y ago
    AFAIK Spacedrive hasn't delivered a release yet, so it's nice to see some competitors delivering.
    - ignoramous 4y ago
      Surprised that they haven't despite garnering interest and funding. Likely that it is not an easy problem to solve!
evntdrvn 4y ago
Awesome to see Simon on there with datasette, and HTMX. Woot!
- imaurer 4y ago
  Best part of Simon being part of it, is that there will be a great record of it from his blog and TILs.
  - swyx 4y ago
    do you think that he has anything to gain from the accelerator? he should be teaching it given the crazy level of experience he has
GyulyVGC 4y ago
Amazing list of projects!
throwawaaarrgh 4y ago
I'm not saying this is a bad thing. But why $20k? It's obviously not a salary... It could pay for infrastructure if a project needed it, but if the project doesn't... I'm having a hard time understanding how it helps sustain the project. I personally wouldn't do both a full time job and work on an OSS project in all my spare time, for the money. If I really need that project I'm gonna do it regardless, and if I don't need that project, sacrificing all my free time isn't worth $20k.
- armchairhacker 4y ago
  $20k for 10 weeks of work seems like a good deal. It’s only 10 weeks so you can’t just quit your job; but if you are in between jobs, can go on leave, or (most likely case) work part-time and just don’t get paid enough, it’s a big help. And it’s certainly better than nothing which is what most OSS devs get unfortunately
- gumballindie 4y ago
  Depends on the country of stay. If you are in Pakistan or India then those 20k is quite a lot. Not so much in Italy or Spain.
  - vincentkriek 4y ago
    20k for 10 weeks is a pretty decent salary, even in the EU. Might not be super competitive for short term work but it's definitely enough to live on in most places.
  - capableweb 4y ago
    Even in most (all?) Mediterranean countries, 2000/week is pretty good pay, would work out to 8000/month, which is on the upper-end when it comes to writing code for the usual web stuff. Pair it with that you get to work on FOSS, I'm having a hard time imagining a similar position with similar pay.
- asicsp 4y ago
  It'd depend on several factors, won't it? Those who are already working on OSS projects have found their balance (or willing to work despite challenges). This amount might make small or big difference for them. You should also consider that how much this is worth will depend on where they live too (for example, my yearly expense is less than $2000).
pomber 4y ago
As the maintainer of one of the selected projects (https://codehike.org/ https://codehike.org/), I really appreciate what GitHub is doing, putting the money and trying different approaches (last year it was $450K across 900 projects).
- swyx 4y ago
  yay pomber! love code hike even tho i wasnt ultimately able to use it at my prev company, still want to use it some day because it is beautiful
recursivedoubts 4y ago
looking forward to participating and accelerating htmx's old man cloud-yelling to levels not previously thought possible...
- infogulch 4y ago
  Congrats! I hope the money goes to even more memes and references. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532520 How do you hope that the sponsorship will help HTMX?
jrochkind1 4y ago
As a rubyist who loves ruby but isn't afraid to admit I see it declining in popularity... I can't help but notice there seems to be no ruby on the list. Plenty of python.
- config_yml 4y ago
  Maybe to avoid looking biased? Github already puts a lot of money towards ruby.
myroon5 4y ago
Github star history graph of the batch: https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&responsively-org/responsively-app&nuxt/framework&spyder-ide/spyder&&simonw/datasette&DioxusLabs/dioxus&bigskysoftware/htmx&mockoon/mockoon&analogjs/analog&Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine&code-hike/codehike&EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree&FashionFreedom/Seamly2D&fastai/nbdev&formbricks/formbricks&GyulyVGC/sniffnet&JessicaTegner/pypandoc&strawberry-graphql/strawberry&TimothyStiles/poly&Date https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&respon... nuxt, trpc, termux, and responsively look pretty popular
- nindalf 4y ago
  Yeah, not pasting in my personal access token into a random website.
  - barbazoo 4y ago
    lol, yeah, I guess you can restrict scope but still, nice try
    - jrochkind1 4y ago
      You can't restrict very much/very well. I think you still can't restrict to specific repos? How much do we have to fundraise to give github to implement API tokens for which you can limit auth for more common use cases?
      - charrondev 4y ago
        I know I have access to fine grained access tokens (beta) which let you get very granular on a per repo. I’m not sure if this is generally available or only because we are on Github Enterprise though.
  - tedmiston 4y ago
    You can use the new Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens [1] (as opposed to the original ones, now called "Personal Access Tokens (Classic)". With the fine-grained tokens, you can literally grant this site: - Repository access: none - User permissions: none - Repository permissions: none [Or if you want to be really paranoid, make a burner account... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.] But also, star-history.com is not a random site — the repo [2] has 4k stars and has been around since 2015 and has been popular for over a year. If you've ever tried to make a public app that depends on GitHub APIs, the limits without taking PATs are very, very low — totally insufficient for an app with any popularity, so there's not really an alternative. [1]: https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens-for-github/ https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-pers... [2]: https://github.com/star-history/star-history https://github.com/star-history/star-history
numbers 4y ago
This list is great to see because as a supporter and user of open source projects, I am glad smaller projects are getting this too! Hopefully it keeps going!
Kwpolska 4y ago
> JessicaTegner/pypandoc Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter. To be frank, that doesn’t seem like a project worthy of $20k to me. Not very many commits recently [0], it has 918 source lines of code in the main package, and 547 lines of test code — it even describes itself as a “thin” wrapper, and the only thing it does is converting some arguments to Pandoc flags and calling the Pandoc executable. How many more features could be added to this project? What is it missing now? [0] https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master
- Spinnaker_ 4y ago
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  - jjeaff 4y ago
    Don't do that. Don't diminish the work of someone simply because they are a woman. Even assuming that money was given as part of some diversity program, to imply that is the only reason she got an investment is to imply that there are simply no qualified women out there deserving of investment. It's just like the criticism of Biden having appointed "so many" Black female judges. As if they are not perfectly qualified or even more qualified than a white male judge would have been. Not to mention the fact that "qualifications" has never really been the criteria for any of this. In other words, merit is far too nebulous a concept for a true "meritocracy" to ever exist.
    - RangerScience 4y ago
      Although I completely agree with you... ...I'm not seeing anything on the readily available info indicating a gender either way.
      - Kwpolska 4y ago
        https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6734036e7eee92d180ea8e7acc7333e6f https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6734...
heyfrommatt 4y ago
Microsoft has had a fraught relationship with the developer community since, well, forever. They seemed to think that buying a developer favorite like GitHub would mend those fences. Nope.
- tough 4y ago
  The more they own, the less I like them. VSCode, Github, TypeScript...
precompute 4y ago
Looks like they peppered in some weird projects in there as well. I'd have expected some "hard software engineering" projects as well, but I guess not everyone is ready to be a spokesman for github's view of the world. https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree : "Your profile will have links to your social media and content. You can also add your timeline, testimonials, and upcoming events that you are participating in." Sounds lame. Is this really worth including in this list? https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: "Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter." So random. Why not support pandoc instead? It seems like a political statement by Microsoft. The list only has "trendy" stuff, carefully moves around any and all "AI" stuff, and none of it seems experimental at all. If I didn't know this was "Github Accelerator" and was shown the list, I'd have assumed this was some VC's list of prospective Open Source programs that could turn a penny or two down the road. It seems pretty obvious to me that now that Github has cornered the "open source" market, it's on the "Extend" phase, looking to change how Open Source is approached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
- ignoramous 4y ago
  The messaging was that an independent panel would select, and not Microsoft per se.
  - precompute 4y ago
    It says "Github accelerator" not "Github community accelerator" or something. Pretty sure micro$oft had a big hand in it, they wouldn't allow the pilot for their program to be so "unsupervised".
AbuAssar 4y ago
really looking forward for AnalogJs to compete with next/nuxt!

233 points by sebg 4y ago

I'm thrilled to see my project (https://mockoon.com https://mockoon.com) being part of this first cohort! It's a great opportunity but it's also good for open-source projects in general. It can only contribute to make our industry more sustainable. Here is the list of the 20 projects that have been selected: - https://github.com/analogjs/analog https://github.com/analogjs/analog: Analog is a fullstack meta-framework to build applications and websites with Angular - https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine https://github.com/Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine: The Python web framework to build production-grade apps - https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx: Makes AJAX, Web Sockets, etc. available directly in HTML - https://github.com/code-hike/codehike https://github.com/code-hike/codehike: Tools for building all types of code walkthroughs: blogs, docs, slides, tutorials, etc. - https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus: Friendly React-like GUI library for desktop, web, mobile, and more, written in Rust. - https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree: Connecting with your audience with a single link, showcasing your content and projects. - https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D https://github.com/FashionFreedom/Seamly2D: Design CAD to democratize and de-centralize fashion design & production. - https://github.com/fastai/nbdev https://github.com/fastai/nbdev: Increase developer productivity by 10x with a new exploratory programming workflow. - https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks: Open-source Qualtrics alternative - https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet https://github.com/GyulyVGC/sniffnet: Cross-platform application to comfortably monitor and analyse network traffic - https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter. - https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon https://github.com/mockoon/mockoon: Mockoon is the easiest and quickest way to design and run mock REST APIs. - https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt: An intuitive framework for building web applications, built for the edge. - https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app https://github.com/responsively-org/responsively-app: A dev-tool for web developers that aid in faster responsive web page development. - https://github.com/simonw/datasette https://github.com/simonw/datasette: An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data - https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder: The scientific Python development environment - https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry https://github.com/strawberry-graphql/strawberry: A GraphQL library for Python that leverages type annotations - https://github.com/termux/termux-app https://github.com/termux/termux-app: A terminal emulator for Android that provides 2000+ linux packages to code on phone - https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly https://github.com/TimothyStiles/poly: Poly is a fast, well tested Go package for engineering organisms. - https://github.com/trpc/trpc https://github.com/trpc/trpc: End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy. Never write another API contract again. Edit: formatting and updated repo links

beanclap 4y ago
super cool congrats :)
sphars 4y ago
Exciting to see both Termux and HTMX be selected, looking forward to what comes of it
dmix 4y ago
Looks like Github linked to Nuxt's old repo and not https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt
- 255kb 4y ago
  Thanks for noticing, will check with owner and GitHub team.
theturtletalks 4y ago
So glad to see codehike here! Pomber has been building amazing open-source projects and codehike will be a game changer for documentation.
- pomber 4y ago
  Thank you!
  - theturtletalks 4y ago
    No problem man. I don't know if you remember, but you helped us add Codehike to our documentation some time back!

qbasic_forever 4y ago

Very cool, this looks like a great list of projects. I like that it's not a bunch of well-known and big names. It looks like stuff that is just getting traction and having a push with dedicated time to maintain could be a huge benefit for them.

beanclap 4y ago
I agree! At the same time its cool that they also picked a few proven projects like Nuxt or tRPC. Good mix :)

nro337 4y ago

Awesome to see trpc and Mockoon on here!

255kb 4y ago
Thanks! I am glad to be in this list too (Mockoon) :)

paranoidxprod 4y ago

Great to see Dioxus there. I was looking at Rust GUI libraries and Dioxus seemed like one of the most interesting to me, but still felt pretty early in development. I did notice in their 0.3 release post they mentioned "This release represents an absolutely massive jump forward for the Dioxus ecosystem. We hope to ship future features more quickly into stable now that many of the desired breaking changes have been incorporated into the core library." so I am excited to see how the project progresses!

erlend_sh 4y ago
Parts of the Dioxus stack are also becoming framework-agnostic, like Blitz the “High performance HTML and CSS renderer powered by WGPU“: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz
- jkelleyrtp 4y ago
  A full list of projects that are being spun out as framework-agnostic: - taffy: flexbox+css grid https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy https://github.com/DioxusLabs/taffy - blitz: html/css renderer https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz - sledgehammer: faster than websys bindings https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/ https://github.com/demonthos/sledgehammer/ - native-core: salsa but for UI trees https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/native-core https://github.com/DioxusLabs/dioxus/tree/master/packages/na... - tui: native-core+terminal rendering We want to make sure every part of the stack is available for anyone.
jkelleyrtp 4y ago
We're super excited about the funding. It's letting us bring on some of the core team full time for the summer and part time for the year. Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack.
- quaunaut 4y ago
  > Our goal with Dioxus is to eat Electron, React Native, Flutter, Phoenix, Gatsby, and NextJS with one stack. What of Phoenix are you looking to tackle?

dmix 4y ago

I've always been curious what sort of relationship https://nuxtjs.org/ https://nuxtjs.org/ has with Next.js and whether they will significantly diverge as their own entity (I haven't had the opportunity to use Nuxt 3 yet). Especially with all of the noise around projects like Remix. Happy to see them on the list none-the-less.

dlxfoo 4y ago
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re-thc 4y ago
Next is for React and Nuxt is for Vue...
- dmix 4y ago
  Well obviously (I'm surprised two people have replied to state this fact), Nuxt's whole pitch was literally "Next for Vue". I was talking about conceptually diverging instead of just being inspired by Next.js, given recent developments with Remix and https://astro.build/ https://astro.build/.
rk06 4y ago
Nuxt is a separate entity from next. Nuxt is meant for same use cases as Next (or Remix) but their implementation is tied to how Vue works. If they find remix API better, they are free to steal it.

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nop_slide 4y ago

Hyped to see htmx and datasette!

pankajdoharey 4y ago

Its like Google summer of code but better.

riffraff 4y ago
GSoC was about bringing young people into FLOSS, this is helping people who actually maintain those projects. I think they are vastly different, tho I am unsure which one would be more valuable in the long run.

mickael-kerjean 4y ago

That looks awesome, when is the next batch coming? What are the conditions for the funding? My OSS project is a Dropbox like UI for S3, SFTP, FTP, NFS, SMB and pretty much every other file transfer protocol: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash Would that fit in your scope?

ignoramous 4y ago
Any FOSS project you're open to work full-time is within scope, iirc. Btw, what you're building sounds very similar to spacedrive: https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive https://github.com/spacedriveapp/spacedrive
- tough 4y ago
  AFAIK Spacedrive hasn't delivered a release yet, so it's nice to see some competitors delivering.
  - ignoramous 4y ago
    Surprised that they haven't despite garnering interest and funding. Likely that it is not an easy problem to solve!

evntdrvn 4y ago

Awesome to see Simon on there with datasette, and HTMX. Woot!

imaurer 4y ago
Best part of Simon being part of it, is that there will be a great record of it from his blog and TILs.
- swyx 4y ago
  do you think that he has anything to gain from the accelerator? he should be teaching it given the crazy level of experience he has

GyulyVGC 4y ago

Amazing list of projects!

throwawaaarrgh 4y ago

I'm not saying this is a bad thing. But why $20k? It's obviously not a salary... It could pay for infrastructure if a project needed it, but if the project doesn't... I'm having a hard time understanding how it helps sustain the project. I personally wouldn't do both a full time job and work on an OSS project in all my spare time, for the money. If I really need that project I'm gonna do it regardless, and if I don't need that project, sacrificing all my free time isn't worth $20k.

armchairhacker 4y ago
$20k for 10 weeks of work seems like a good deal. It’s only 10 weeks so you can’t just quit your job; but if you are in between jobs, can go on leave, or (most likely case) work part-time and just don’t get paid enough, it’s a big help. And it’s certainly better than nothing which is what most OSS devs get unfortunately
gumballindie 4y ago
Depends on the country of stay. If you are in Pakistan or India then those 20k is quite a lot. Not so much in Italy or Spain.
- vincentkriek 4y ago
  20k for 10 weeks is a pretty decent salary, even in the EU. Might not be super competitive for short term work but it's definitely enough to live on in most places.
- capableweb 4y ago
  Even in most (all?) Mediterranean countries, 2000/week is pretty good pay, would work out to 8000/month, which is on the upper-end when it comes to writing code for the usual web stuff. Pair it with that you get to work on FOSS, I'm having a hard time imagining a similar position with similar pay.
asicsp 4y ago
It'd depend on several factors, won't it? Those who are already working on OSS projects have found their balance (or willing to work despite challenges). This amount might make small or big difference for them. You should also consider that how much this is worth will depend on where they live too (for example, my yearly expense is less than $2000).

pomber 4y ago

As the maintainer of one of the selected projects (https://codehike.org/ https://codehike.org/), I really appreciate what GitHub is doing, putting the money and trying different approaches (last year it was $450K across 900 projects).

swyx 4y ago
yay pomber! love code hike even tho i wasnt ultimately able to use it at my prev company, still want to use it some day because it is beautiful

recursivedoubts 4y ago

looking forward to participating and accelerating htmx's old man cloud-yelling to levels not previously thought possible...

infogulch 4y ago
Congrats! I hope the money goes to even more memes and references. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35532520 How do you hope that the sponsorship will help HTMX?

jrochkind1 4y ago

As a rubyist who loves ruby but isn't afraid to admit I see it declining in popularity... I can't help but notice there seems to be no ruby on the list. Plenty of python.

config_yml 4y ago
Maybe to avoid looking biased? Github already puts a lot of money towards ruby.

myroon5 4y ago

Github star history graph of the batch: https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&responsively-org/responsively-app&nuxt/framework&spyder-ide/spyder&&simonw/datasette&DioxusLabs/dioxus&bigskysoftware/htmx&mockoon/mockoon&analogjs/analog&Atri-Labs/atrilabs-engine&code-hike/codehike&EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree&FashionFreedom/Seamly2D&fastai/nbdev&formbricks/formbricks&GyulyVGC/sniffnet&JessicaTegner/pypandoc&strawberry-graphql/strawberry&TimothyStiles/poly&Date https://star-history.com/#trpc/trpc&termux/termux-app&respon... nuxt, trpc, termux, and responsively look pretty popular

nindalf 4y ago
Yeah, not pasting in my personal access token into a random website.
- barbazoo 4y ago
  lol, yeah, I guess you can restrict scope but still, nice try
  - jrochkind1 4y ago
    You can't restrict very much/very well. I think you still can't restrict to specific repos? How much do we have to fundraise to give github to implement API tokens for which you can limit auth for more common use cases?
    - charrondev 4y ago
      I know I have access to fine grained access tokens (beta) which let you get very granular on a per repo. I’m not sure if this is generally available or only because we are on Github Enterprise though.
- tedmiston 4y ago
  You can use the new Fine-grained Personal Access Tokens [1] (as opposed to the original ones, now called "Personal Access Tokens (Classic)". With the fine-grained tokens, you can literally grant this site: - Repository access: none - User permissions: none - Repository permissions: none [Or if you want to be really paranoid, make a burner account... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.] But also, star-history.com is not a random site — the repo [2] has 4k stars and has been around since 2015 and has been popular for over a year. If you've ever tried to make a public app that depends on GitHub APIs, the limits without taking PATs are very, very low — totally insufficient for an app with any popularity, so there's not really an alternative. [1]: https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-personal-access-tokens-for-github/ https://github.blog/2022-10-18-introducing-fine-grained-pers... [2]: https://github.com/star-history/star-history https://github.com/star-history/star-history

numbers 4y ago

This list is great to see because as a supporter and user of open source projects, I am glad smaller projects are getting this too! Hopefully it keeps going!

Kwpolska 4y ago

> JessicaTegner/pypandoc Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter. To be frank, that doesn’t seem like a project worthy of $20k to me. Not very many commits recently [0], it has 918 source lines of code in the main package, and 547 lines of test code — it even describes itself as a “thin” wrapper, and the only thing it does is converting some arguments to Pandoc flags and calling the Pandoc executable. How many more features could be added to this project? What is it missing now? [0] https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commits/master

Spinnaker_ 4y ago
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- jjeaff 4y ago
  Don't do that. Don't diminish the work of someone simply because they are a woman. Even assuming that money was given as part of some diversity program, to imply that is the only reason she got an investment is to imply that there are simply no qualified women out there deserving of investment. It's just like the criticism of Biden having appointed "so many" Black female judges. As if they are not perfectly qualified or even more qualified than a white male judge would have been. Not to mention the fact that "qualifications" has never really been the criteria for any of this. In other words, merit is far too nebulous a concept for a true "meritocracy" to ever exist.
  - RangerScience 4y ago
    Although I completely agree with you... ...I'm not seeing anything on the readily available info indicating a gender either way.
    - Kwpolska 4y ago
      https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6734036e7eee92d180ea8e7acc7333e6f https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc/commit/4becb4e6734...

heyfrommatt 4y ago

Microsoft has had a fraught relationship with the developer community since, well, forever. They seemed to think that buying a developer favorite like GitHub would mend those fences. Nope.

tough 4y ago
The more they own, the less I like them. VSCode, Github, TypeScript...

precompute 4y ago

Looks like they peppered in some weird projects in there as well. I'd have expected some "hard software engineering" projects as well, but I guess not everyone is ready to be a spokesman for github's view of the world. https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree https://github.com/EddieHubCommunity/LinkFree : "Your profile will have links to your social media and content. You can also add your timeline, testimonials, and upcoming events that you are participating in." Sounds lame. Is this really worth including in this list? https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc https://github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc: "Pypandoc provides a thin wrapper for pandoc, a universal document converter." So random. Why not support pandoc instead? It seems like a political statement by Microsoft. The list only has "trendy" stuff, carefully moves around any and all "AI" stuff, and none of it seems experimental at all. If I didn't know this was "Github Accelerator" and was shown the list, I'd have assumed this was some VC's list of prospective Open Source programs that could turn a penny or two down the road. It seems pretty obvious to me that now that Github has cornered the "open source" market, it's on the "Extend" phase, looking to change how Open Source is approached. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

ignoramous 4y ago
The messaging was that an independent panel would select, and not Microsoft per se.
- precompute 4y ago
  It says "Github accelerator" not "Github community accelerator" or something. Pretty sure micro$oft had a big hand in it, they wouldn't allow the pilot for their program to be so "unsupervised".

AbuAssar 4y ago

really looking forward for AnalogJs to compete with next/nuxt!