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by mbrain on 1/2/15, 11:48 PM with 8 comments

I just released first version of my side project, Gitcuss.

http://www.gitcuss.com

--What is this?

Gitcuss is a platform for discussing Github repositories. You can learn more about a project, library, gem or anything available on Github. Or you can leave a comment about it.

--Why did I created it?

After reading readme files of repos, I always look for last commit date and watch, star, fork counts to evaluate libraries(gems for ruby) then I decide to use it or not. But sometimes thats not enough. I want to learn what people think about it. Thats why I created Gitcuss. It was something I was looking for most of the time.

A Chrome plugin will be available soon for better experience.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

Leave feedback on Gitcuss. http://www.gitcuss.com/r/beydogan/gitcuss

  • by bbcbasic on 1/5/15, 3:56 AM

    Nice RoR project but how are you going to get traction? How is this better then say submitting the repository to HN and discussing it here (with more people to view it).

    Infact GitHuss could instead be an engine to discover github projects that have been discussed on HN and link to the HN discussion!

  • by mbrain on 1/2/15, 11:49 PM

    Any feedback would be really appreciated. You can leave feedback on Gitcuss http://www.gitcuss.com/r/beydogan/gitcuss

  • by svisser on 1/3/15, 1:37 AM

    Presumably this combines "git" and "discuss" but it now concatenates "git" and "cuss".