Introducing GitStars: A better way to organize your GitHub starred repositories

[Prashant Nadarajan]

Howdy folks!

Just released a simple web tool, GitStars (http://www.gitstars.com) to
help make the act of starring repositories on GitHub infinitely more
useful.

I've found The Ruby Toolbox to be useful and always wished there was a
toolbox like that for every other language and an automated way to
keep it up to date.
Hopefully GitStars can become that toolbox.

When you log into GitStars, your starred GitHub repositories are
fetched and automatically tagged.
You can freely edit the tags and help make the system's auto tagging
better for everyone.

In this early version, we are focused on helping you re-discover the
repositories that you may have starred and lost track of.
You can browse or search the repositories by the tags that were
automatically generated.

I would love to hear your thoughts on whether you find GitStars useful
and if there is anything related that you would like to see on it.



p/s: This is an early preview release, bug reports are most appreciated ;-)


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Prashant

[Paul Gallagher]

it's a timely idea! Ever since github split watch into watch & star I've been all at sea ... most of my watches are actually "bookmarking" and now github doesn't provide the necessary features to work effectively with "starred" repos (I've spent most of my time submitting features requests)

I just gave gitstars a quick spin, but unfortunately it didn't do for me what I expected. Attempting to search my starred repos for a partial patch (e.g. pdf .. expecting pdf-reader etc to match) gave me no results. And in some searches it seemed like you are looking at ruby toolbox for results.

But, if you get this right, it will be awesome. How do you want to take feedback? Do you have uservoice or sim setup yet?

Cheers,
Paul
 

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Prashant

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[Jason Ong]

Gave it a spin and here's my two cents :)

- Why focus on the signin on homepage? Make popular projects the emphasis instead of hiding below

- Onboarding process needs to be clearer, ie. don't make me think more than I should so maybe clicking on a projects starts the oauth process

- Instead of landing on user's profile page after oauth, direct them to on a "discover cool/relevant starred projects" page.

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Cheers,
JasonOng

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[Prashant Nadarajan]

Thanks for the feedback.

The focus is on sign (at this stage) in hopes people start tagging
their starred repos with relevant tags.
Without the collective intelligence there's very little little to show
that wouldbe difference from GitHub's ever (read: never) changing
Explore section.

Prashant

[parolkar]

Good stuff Prashant!

On another note, I recently saw Brain Doll's StrataConf presentation on "Analyzing Millions of GitHub Commits" (http://www.igvita.com/slides/2012/bigquery-github-strata.pdf) , very useful and relevant walk-through of BigQuery+Github Archive.

- Abhishek

http://github.com/parolkar

 

On Friday, November 2, 2012 1:58:05 AM UTC+8, Tristan Gomez wrote:

Ah nvm then, saw gitrep.com :)