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Ask HN: What is your most popular GitHub repo?

11 points by scotchio 13y ago

thecodemonkey 13y ago
I created a mildly popular LAMP Stack template for Vagrant using Chef [1]. Proud of every single one of the 40 stars. Hehe. [1] https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack
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swanson 13y ago
https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer by far I've noticed that very few projects are able to get a high star count without 1) a clear value proposition in the README 2) screenshots, screenshots, screenshots.
- companyhen 13y ago
  That looks really nice. Is there a live site up somewhere or do I have to do it myself? :)
  - swanson 13y ago
    It is self-hosted - one user per instance.
- ElongatedTowel 13y ago
  Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.
krapp 13y ago
Lucky for me and my ego, we're not comparing popularity relative to one another... anyway this is an implementation of perceptual hashing in PHP, to catch image reposting on forums and imageboards. It counts as the 'most popular' because it's the only repo I have that anyone's contributed to or made a fork of so far (they did it in js) https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher
s4m20 13y ago
A sprite tool. My biggest ever single-handed project. I don't know how many man hours it represents and probably rather wouldn't. https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor
alexgaribay 13y ago
An Octopress theme. It's the first repo that I've made with the intention for others to use. https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat
csense 13y ago
This is a great idea! I think there should be a monthly thread for HN'ers to show off their projects. Or maybe a special category for posts about projects, which you can filter based on. Wait a minute, I'm describing Show HN...is there a way to filter and see only Show HN posts?
- simantel 13y ago
  Unfortunately there's no way to do that on HN, but if you use HN Search it's pretty easy: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Show+HN%22&sortby=create_ts+desc https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Show+HN...
L8D 13y ago
Very embarassingly, https://github.com/L8D/delvs https://github.com/L8D/delvs Almost every project I have is completely unseen and just there for personal use or my stupid amusement.
Ovid 13y ago
Much to my surprise, it's https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color Screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/ That's my work to bring syntax highlighting to the Perl debugger. It involves some deep magic with the debugger and still needs more work, but people are very happy with it.
jamesjguthrie 13y ago
Staff management app Team Sheet http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/ http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/
dannytatom 13y ago
It only has a handful of stars & forks, and is pretty terrible/hacked together. https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy
thisisdallas 13y ago
I made a lightweight CSS grid, and I'm blown away by the 700+ stars. Creating something that people can use is a wonderful feeling. https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid

11 points by scotchio 13y ago

I created a mildly popular LAMP Stack template for Vagrant using Chef [1]. Proud of every single one of the 40 stars. Hehe. [1] https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack

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swanson 13y ago

https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/swanson/stringer by far I've noticed that very few projects are able to get a high star count without 1) a clear value proposition in the README 2) screenshots, screenshots, screenshots.

companyhen 13y ago
That looks really nice. Is there a live site up somewhere or do I have to do it myself? :)
- swanson 13y ago
  It is self-hosted - one user per instance.
ElongatedTowel 13y ago
Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.

krapp 13y ago

Lucky for me and my ego, we're not comparing popularity relative to one another... anyway this is an implementation of perceptual hashing in PHP, to catch image reposting on forums and imageboards. It counts as the 'most popular' because it's the only repo I have that anyone's contributed to or made a fork of so far (they did it in js) https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher

s4m20 13y ago

A sprite tool. My biggest ever single-handed project. I don't know how many man hours it represents and probably rather wouldn't. https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor

alexgaribay 13y ago

An Octopress theme. It's the first repo that I've made with the intention for others to use. https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat

csense 13y ago

This is a great idea! I think there should be a monthly thread for HN'ers to show off their projects. Or maybe a special category for posts about projects, which you can filter based on. Wait a minute, I'm describing Show HN...is there a way to filter and see only Show HN posts?

simantel 13y ago
Unfortunately there's no way to do that on HN, but if you use HN Search it's pretty easy: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Show+HN%22&sortby=create_ts+desc https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Show+HN...

L8D 13y ago

Very embarassingly, https://github.com/L8D/delvs https://github.com/L8D/delvs Almost every project I have is completely unseen and just there for personal use or my stupid amusement.

Ovid 13y ago

Much to my surprise, it's https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color Screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/ That's my work to bring syntax highlighting to the Perl debugger. It involves some deep magic with the debugger and still needs more work, but people are very happy with it.

jamesjguthrie 13y ago

Staff management app Team Sheet http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/ http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/

dannytatom 13y ago

It only has a handful of stars & forks, and is pretty terrible/hacked together. https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy

thisisdallas 13y ago

I made a lightweight CSS grid, and I'm blown away by the 700+ stars. Creating something that people can use is a wonderful feeling. https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid