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Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by baepaul »

What works now: user signups, org creations, private/public repos, and importing GitHub repositories (both as read-only mirrors and full migrations). So basically, you can create, push and pull to a repo, but we don't have many features quite yet (issues, PRs, CI).

What is a bit unique is: 1) we built it in Rust and 2) the website is a little odd. Its design is inspired by CLIs (e.g., fzf, broot, vim) instead of web apps, and as such, lacks some affordances that you might typically expect in favor of keyboard-driven instant navigations (we have the very ambitious goal of an FCP of 100ms). In case you're curious, here's how we we built it: https://gitdot.io/designs

We recognize that we're making some bold claims here and are also well aware that we have much to learn. Building software is still hard, and that's a fact we seem to relearn everyday.

But we wanted to share what we built so far nonetheless.

Cheers, thank y'all for reading, and till the next —paul & mikkel.

Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
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Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

This is really interesting. Especially as its open source and I really liked the UI design of it.

I was thinking about creating my own git forge given the unreliability of Github and I wouldn't be able to create just at the moment incredibly reliable software like git forge although I could use AI to create a minimalist piece of software, I didn't because I didn't want to create yet another AI slop fighting another AI slop (github/gitlab).

Forejo is incredible but I have always wanted to get more alternatives in this field.

Much thanks for making it. I have signed up and I have high hopes for it too and I will try to either self host this on my servers or gitdot.io as well as Github

I recommend making a small community in matrix (preferred), fluxer.gg, discord etc. as I'd like to join it.

PS: small personal thing that I have made which helps in making communities: https://mirror.forum

I am definitely interested in gitdot.io! This seems incredible

I wish nothing but the best for you folks. Gonna create a local copy of the source code of gitdot.io right now!

Thanks for open-sourcing the efforts too. I really appreciate it :-D The software is so nice!

I genuinely hope that you guys and the project blows up and if you guys might ever hire a junior dev, I hope you all could remember me as the world right now needed such software that you have made!! :-D (Although I am more interested in managing servers/golang but that's because rust is hard to learn as a beginner but that's different topic but I like rust's ideas too and rust is a great/preferred language with golang for this type of service :-D)

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by wjsekfghks »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #2

This is really interesting. Especially as its open source and I really liked the UI design of it. I was thinking about creating my own git forge given the unreliability of Github and I wouldn't be able to create just at the moment incredibly reliable software like git forge although I could use AI to create a minimalist piece of software, I didn't because I didn't want to create yet another AI slop fighting another A…

Thanks for the support, we really appreciate it. We want to create/support communities within the app in the future (via issues, etc) but ya it's a good idea to form some channels.

It might be a bit difficult to self-host at the moment (as we don't have a good documentation to do so) but you can try and let us know how it goes.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by wjsekfghks »

mathisdev7 wrote: post #5

I hate that when we scroll through a codebase files, it changes the file we are hovering, I'd rather having to click to see the file

If you click the file row (not the filename as that will navigate to file page), then hovering over other files won't change the preview.

Re: Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust

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Post by screamingninja »

> 5. What features will gitdot not have?

> AI.

> We view AI as an implementation detail — and do not think that using it is necessarily good.

> In fact, we think it makes many products worse by acting as a bandaid for poor design.

> That isn’t to say we are blind to it, but that we will be judicious in our use of it instead.

Not sure I follow. What feature are the developers referring to? I understand that AI will power tools that may or may not fit a particular use case. How is AI a feature and what does it mean to be anti-AI?

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