Things I would build if I worked at GitHub • Hacker News Board

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#11

Post by sandGorgon » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

I would build a Slack alternative + Jira alternative that is deeply integrated into Github.

QED.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#12

Post by tsuresh » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:04 PM UTC

GitHub wiki is a repo and can be cloned locally. Searching through a local files is trivial.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#13

Post by Nadya » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:06 PM UTC

geofft wrote: post #5

It seems like some of these (perhaps all of them other than fixing the "+1" problem) can be done via API clients instead of via GitHub itself implementing it. A third-party website can do wiki searches. A separate service can send you email notifications, and you can turn off built-in emails. Even the +1 thing might be solvable with a bot that edits each bug report to add a clickable +1 badge (a la the CI build-passi…

The +1 thing is solved by ZenHub - which I'm amazed they've been unable to gather a large amount of traction!

https://www.zenhub.io/

Not affiliated, used it, but without others using it it's largely...well.. useless. :)

E:

Hmm... seems it has become $5/mo to use. I remember it being free. Wonder when that happened?

E2:

>ZenHub is free for the open source community.

Oh.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#14

Post by jarjoura » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:11 PM UTC

My biggest pet-peeve about GitHub is its issue tracker system. It's great for one-off issues or tracking a pull-request, but beyond that its design is super unwieldy. Such a missed opportunity to crush JIRA, et. al.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#15

Post by brobdingnagian » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

The ability to search your own gists!

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#16

Post by kevinSuttle » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

I started this as well: https://github.com/kevinSuttle/github/issues (not the same Kevin as link author)

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#17

Post by felixgallo » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:15 PM UTC

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github:

* Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with:

* Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with:

* Github Deploy - deploy tooling for deploying runnable artifacts or artifact combinations to either your own infrastructure, or to aws/azure/google, or:

* Github Cloud - instances/containers as a service

and the 'fork' button would be a pulldown that would include the options 'fork', 'fork and test', 'fork, test and deploy'. Now that's a nice little 3-4 year career.

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

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Post by thinkbohemian » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:16 PM UTC

Better filters for emails. Would love to subscribe to only new issues on a repo or random issues on a repo. Basically http://codetriage.com

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#19

Post by qntmfred » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

https://github.com/isaacs/github has a ton of these missing features

Re: Things I would build if I worked at GitHub

#20

Post by holic » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 8:17 PM UTC

felixgallo wrote: post #17

These are great, but they're bugfixes. You'd finish them in the first few months. Then what are you going to do? Stare at an aquarium all day? Here's what I would build if I worked at github: * Github CI - simple CI for every language, integrating with: * Github Artifacts - repository for versioned deployable build packages (binaries, tar.gz files, ios builds, android builds...), integrating with: * Github Deploy - d…

Maybe a more apt title would be "Things I would fix if I worked at GitHub". :)