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A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just wa
by gamegoblin 13y ago
A programmer social network. I find myself with two distinct sets of friends on Facebook: my tech friends and my normal friends. With my tech friends, I just want to post neat snippets of code as statuses and share github gists on walls and whatnot. So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in.
Imagine seeing a cool repo, then being able to friend the owner, and open a chat box to have a quick chat about it right there on the page rather than having to go to another communication method.
EDIT: I know this super similar to github. Really I just want github to implement the equivalent of friends, chats, and public profiles people can post things to (a la facebook wall).
- mcdougle 13y agoDude. I've often thought about doing exactly this, but I felt like there was probably something already out there and just haven't taken the time to research whether that's true or not. If there's not, and there still isn't by the time I finish launching my current project, I might just look into taking this on next!
- ArtDev 13y agohttp://forrst.com/ http://forrst.com/
- pearjuice 13y agoOnly dead trees there. It used to be a great place, but after it got acquired, acquired, sold and then acquired again, all of the community was long gone. It had its peek under Kyle Bragger when he was actually running a community with staff full-time on it, but after he sold it, it went downhill. Fast. There's some recent attempts to bring back the community and improve all sorts of things, but it's just renovating and feeding a rotten tree. Sure, it will live for a long time but it will never be as beautiful as a real living tree fed by nature.
- damonpace 13y agoI built something like this about 4 years ago called BigStartups.com. It was built to help network the startup community and was moderately successful. Unfortunately, there were co-founder issues and we shut it down. I often think about what it could be in todays world if we kept working on it. Oh well...
- rkuykendall-com 13y agoThis sounds like something, that if it started to gain traction, could be replicated by Github almost instantly.
- gamegoblin 13y agoReally I just want github to implement that functionality, rather than make an entire new site.
- dangrossman 13y agohttps://geekli.st https://geekli.st is trying to be that.
- jasonlotito 13y agoGeekli.st is "social network" for tech recruiters.
- pekk 13y agoThis could be solved by something like Google Plus, if circles could be defined by topics that people subscribe to rather than by people you want to send a message to. e.g.: I want to know what Jim thinks about coding, but not politics
- bgp 13y agoWhat you describe sounds like the existing Communities feature, but until there is code block formatting in posts it'll still be a pain to read code in G+
- leemcalilly 13y agoIt's called Github
- gamegoblin 13y agoAs I said at the end of the first paragraph: >So I'd like basically github with more social elements thrown in.
- iLoch 13y agoSo Facebook. :) How about limiting the audience of your Facebook posts to a list of developer friends?
- adam419 13y agokoding.com
- robobro 13y agoFacebook Groups work well for this for me. Twitter too. And IRC...
- Gurrewe 13y agoI'm part of a huge Facebook-group (maybe 2000 members) with only programmers in my city. It's really great and the only thing that I like and enjoy about Facebook nowadays.
- zachlatta 13y agoI'm a part of a similar thing, except for high schoolers. ~700 members and it's easily become my favorite part of Facebook.
- gromy 13y agohttps://gitter.im/ https://gitter.im/ ?
- xerophtye 13y agoThis looks really cool :D
- Sindrome 13y agoGeeklist, Coderwall, Github, sub groups on FB/Twitter
- dzink 13y agoThat's why we've built http://DoerHub.com http://DoerHub.com . We have hackers, entrepreneurs, surgeons, PhDs, and doers of all kinds posting and contributing to projects. The purpose of the site is to enable everyone to share what they are working on and grow it with help from others who care about the same topic (teammates, advisors, beta users, feedback, single-task contributors, word of mouth, you name it ). You can already message anyone, but we're adding group chat and anything else doers request that makes collaboration easier. You can just connect with GitHub.
- vargas84 13y agoCould these features be added to Github via browser plugin? (I really don't know)
- olalonde 13y agohttp://www.coderwall.com http://www.coderwall.com seems similar to that.
- xux 13y agoI think GitHub is in a strong position to do this. They can easily turn it into something more social that allows you to add friends and share codes in your feed.
- wcummings 13y agoGithub already let's you follow people, and has something vaguely akin to a feed to track followed users and watched repos