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Verto.sh: A New Hub Connecting Beginners with Open-Source Projects

92 points by lucavallin 3y ago

lucavallin 3y ago
verto.sh simplifies your entry into the open-source world by curating accessible projects. Ideal for beginners making their first contribution, founders building teams, and maintainers seeking new contributors.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
  You need a better name and brand, vertosh is not very discoverable.
  - lucavallin 3y ago
    It used to be firstissue.dev, which sounds like everything else. It had to be verto.dev, but someone else took the domain. Verto is a word of significance in my native language, and one dear to me at that.
- canadiantim 3y ago
  Pretty cool project, love the support for open source. Good luck and all the best!
  - lucavallin 3y ago
    Thanks!
bongobingo1 3y ago
Browsing by language does not appear to work, the list remains as it were.
- lacoolj 3y ago
  the project itself needs to be listed in its own list of projects :)
  - lucavallin 3y ago
    It doesn't meet the requirements!
    - beeburrt 3y ago
      What are the requirements? This is great by the way, thanks for sharing!
      - lucavallin 3y ago
        Happy to hear! It's a short list made lengthy because of different providers, the details are in the readme: https://github.com/lucavallin/verto/tree/main#adding-a-new-project https://github.com/lucavallin/verto/tree/main#adding-a-new-p...
- lucavallin 3y ago
  That's what you get when you make changes late night / early morning!
chidame 3y ago
Nice project! Thanks for sharing
- lucavallin 3y ago
  Glad you like it!
shivamonweb 3y ago
Great re-design! I love it. Congratulations.
- lucavallin 3y ago
  Some yellow for fun ;)
ryanisnan 3y ago
This is cool - I can think of some projects that are amazing as first contributors, and others I can think of that are terrible. One thing I think the tool doesn't address is why someone should contribute to a particular project. Having stars is interesting, and a proxy for at least historical activity, but also kind of useless here - take argoproj/argo-cd [1] as an example - 14.5k stars, with a backlog of 2.7k issues and an issue tracker that's a real mess. Either way, I think this tool is neat for trying to gain some experience in a project purely based on language. [1] https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...
- ryanisnan 3y ago
  This kind of speaks to how stars on GitHub are kind of a mess themselves. What would be really interesting is if there were some kind of a metric that captured oss-contributor sentiment - projects that were easy to contribute to, with healthy ecosystems, would have higher scores, and projects where your PRs sit forever half-reviewed, or unmerged, get lower scores.
rapnie 3y ago
And read the related article on implementation and links to the source repo: https://www.lucavall.in/blog/meet-verto-sh-your-gateway-open-source-collaboration https://www.lucavall.in/blog/meet-verto-sh-your-gateway-open...
nams 3y ago
this is pretty nice!
- lucavallin 3y ago
  Glad to hear!
kissgyorgy 3y ago
Sure. The first listed project is aws/aws-cdk. :D
- boredtofears 3y ago
  Not exactly a beginner friendly OSS project. Pretty rigorous contribution guidelines (for good reason... but probably not a great first project for beginners).
- sontek 3y ago
  haha, that was the first thing I said. Obviously not a curated list because anything AWS maintained is not a good place to start your OSS journey
- lucavallin 3y ago
  The goal is also to contribute to a project that you'd be proud contributing to. For example, my cousin's Twitter clone is easy to contribute to, but it has no effect on your resume.
sontek 3y ago
I was surprised to see AWS projects at the top of the list. In my experience contributing to anything maintained by them isn't a great time for first timers.
- lucavallin 3y ago
  Great for learning and for resume-building! I am not sure why it is at the top of the list, I don't think those are ordered in any specific way.
disposition2 3y ago
This is neat. As someone recently laid off and looking to stay sharp with coding while searching for a new opportunity, a suggestion (if possible)… Maybe add an option to sort by issues? I’m currently working on a personal project to better understand how to stand up both the backend and frontend (one of the awesome things about my former team was we had templates that made standing up a new service a breeze) but I would really like to use my time to try and resolve issues in some OSS. Unfortunately, a lot of my more recent experience was project management and features/fixes, so I need to brush up on the fundamentals but it would also be nice to utilize my productivity to the advantage of others. Thanks for sharing

92 points by lucavallin 3y ago

verto.sh simplifies your entry into the open-source world by curating accessible projects. Ideal for beginners making their first contribution, founders building teams, and maintainers seeking new contributors.

KRAKRISMOTT 3y ago
You need a better name and brand, vertosh is not very discoverable.
- lucavallin 3y ago
  It used to be firstissue.dev, which sounds like everything else. It had to be verto.dev, but someone else took the domain. Verto is a word of significance in my native language, and one dear to me at that.
canadiantim 3y ago
Pretty cool project, love the support for open source. Good luck and all the best!
- lucavallin 3y ago
  Thanks!

bongobingo1 3y ago

Browsing by language does not appear to work, the list remains as it were.

lacoolj 3y ago
the project itself needs to be listed in its own list of projects :)
- lucavallin 3y ago
  It doesn't meet the requirements!
  - beeburrt 3y ago
    What are the requirements? This is great by the way, thanks for sharing!
    - lucavallin 3y ago
      Happy to hear! It's a short list made lengthy because of different providers, the details are in the readme: https://github.com/lucavallin/verto/tree/main#adding-a-new-project https://github.com/lucavallin/verto/tree/main#adding-a-new-p...
lucavallin 3y ago
That's what you get when you make changes late night / early morning!

chidame 3y ago

Nice project! Thanks for sharing

lucavallin 3y ago
Glad you like it!

shivamonweb 3y ago

Great re-design! I love it. Congratulations.

lucavallin 3y ago
Some yellow for fun ;)

ryanisnan 3y ago

This is cool - I can think of some projects that are amazing as first contributors, and others I can think of that are terrible. One thing I think the tool doesn't address is why someone should contribute to a particular project. Having stars is interesting, and a proxy for at least historical activity, but also kind of useless here - take argoproj/argo-cd [1] as an example - 14.5k stars, with a backlog of 2.7k issues and an issue tracker that's a real mess. Either way, I think this tool is neat for trying to gain some experience in a project purely based on language. [1] https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+sort%3Acreated-asc https://github.com/argoproj/argo-cd/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3...

ryanisnan 3y ago
This kind of speaks to how stars on GitHub are kind of a mess themselves. What would be really interesting is if there were some kind of a metric that captured oss-contributor sentiment - projects that were easy to contribute to, with healthy ecosystems, would have higher scores, and projects where your PRs sit forever half-reviewed, or unmerged, get lower scores.

rapnie 3y ago

And read the related article on implementation and links to the source repo: https://www.lucavall.in/blog/meet-verto-sh-your-gateway-open-source-collaboration https://www.lucavall.in/blog/meet-verto-sh-your-gateway-open...

nams 3y ago

this is pretty nice!

lucavallin 3y ago
Glad to hear!

kissgyorgy 3y ago

Sure. The first listed project is aws/aws-cdk. :D

boredtofears 3y ago
Not exactly a beginner friendly OSS project. Pretty rigorous contribution guidelines (for good reason... but probably not a great first project for beginners).
sontek 3y ago
haha, that was the first thing I said. Obviously not a curated list because anything AWS maintained is not a good place to start your OSS journey
lucavallin 3y ago
The goal is also to contribute to a project that you'd be proud contributing to. For example, my cousin's Twitter clone is easy to contribute to, but it has no effect on your resume.

sontek 3y ago

I was surprised to see AWS projects at the top of the list. In my experience contributing to anything maintained by them isn't a great time for first timers.

lucavallin 3y ago
Great for learning and for resume-building! I am not sure why it is at the top of the list, I don't think those are ordered in any specific way.

disposition2 3y ago

This is neat. As someone recently laid off and looking to stay sharp with coding while searching for a new opportunity, a suggestion (if possible)… Maybe add an option to sort by issues? I’m currently working on a personal project to better understand how to stand up both the backend and frontend (one of the awesome things about my former team was we had templates that made standing up a new service a breeze) but I would really like to use my time to try and resolve issues in some OSS. Unfortunately, a lot of my more recent experience was project management and features/fixes, so I need to brush up on the fundamentals but it would also be nice to utilize my productivity to the advantage of others. Thanks for sharing