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1 Step to Incentivize Stars and Forks on GitHub

nastyox on October 27, 2020

As developers, we put a lot of work into our GitHub repos to make them as useful as possible for others, but great projects sometimes go under-ap...
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Tapas Adhikary

Thanks, this is very cool. I have used it now for most of my git projects and it looks awesome.

Given a star for your project, it deserves all the stars :)..

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nikhilmwarrier

Exactly... Me too

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shadowtime2000

Are you going to open source the frontend and/or the backend?

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nastyox • Edited

I just published the backend on the repo and added an "UNLICENSE" license so everyone's free to host it themselves if so desired.

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shadowtime2000

Are you going to open source the frontend? It is probably really simple that anyone could implement but there are somethings I want to contribute to it.

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nastyox

You mean the website? I don't really consider that the point of the project, so I probably wont put it on GitHub, but frontend stuff is always accessible through the browser. Feel free to grab it and message me your suggestions on here. I'll be happy to take a look!

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Rowe Morehouse

Awesome. That's clever. "Social Proof" always helps when you are trying to achieve a people goal.

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Muramoto Hideyosi

Hello
Can we talk about the online business?

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nastyox

hey, feel free to send me a direct message on here. i check them regularly

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Muramoto Hideyosi

I don't know how to send a direct message

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nastyox • Edited

You can message me @nastyox1 on twitter, or you can reply to the email I sent to the address listed on your profile.

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Ben Halpern

This is really well done. Definitely considering it for Forem 😄

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nastyox • Edited

Thanks! I wanted it to be right at the initial release, so I spent extra time developing it up front. Your support on my articles and projects here has been very cool. I'll keep an eye on Forem :)

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bretgeek

Awesome! Added to github.com/bretgeek/yumjs

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Evan E. Baird

Whoa! Could you make one for sponsors?

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nastyox • Edited

Glad you like it! I think contributors, watchers, and followers would be the easiest to add. I see what you're talking about with sponsors here. I do not see sponsors in GitHub's API, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, just potentially less reliable. As I develop the project, I'll include this as a feature. Just make sure you're watching the project or doing whatever you prefer to keep up with it so you don't miss out

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Sandeep

Very cool 👏