Githits

http://githits.me

by helwr • 15 years ago

79 45 15 years ago

githits.me

schrototo• 15 years ago

I think I'm blind now...

(Sorry to be snarky, but my god man, change that color scheme...)

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. Glad I'm not a designer :) Will update it soon.

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

I toned down the colors. I think the background image is still a little busy. Will change that soon.

icefox2• 15 years ago

It would be nice if I could click on a state on not just pre-selected towns or could put in the url such as my town WalthamMA and show those in Waltham MA (two towns over from cambridge).

zheng2• 15 years ago

Any particular reason the main site defaults to Philly? Also, what is the utility of grouping users by physical location? Novelty?

icefox2• 15 years ago

It would be cool to have an input of my account and have it spit out users that live near me that have contributed to projects I own or contributed to projects I also have contributed to or am watching. It would be fun to meet up with some devs in person. Really taking the 'social' context of coding to the next level.

patrickyeon• 15 years ago

Looking to hire a local programmer would be one use.

zheng2• 15 years ago

Ah, this makes sense. However I'd echo the question above about how the cities were chosen.

postfuturist• 15 years ago

Portland is part of Washington? No.

kingkilr• 15 years ago

It'll never stop being weird to pull up something like this and see myself :/

axx• 15 years ago

Damn, the color scheme looks terrible!

jrockway• 15 years ago

Nice, I have the most repositories of anyone in Chicago, and am only 6 positions less popular than dhh.

I am not sure what this means, but I'm OK with it.

catshirt• 15 years ago

nodejitsu, coffeescript, lithium, etc. nyc rules.

damncabbage• 15 years ago

Kindly requesting Australia. :)

(Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide... Take your pick.)

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

Sounds good, added to my list. If anyone else interested in a particular city, just let me know.

delano• 15 years ago

Montreal, please.

nantes• 15 years ago

Kansas City?

vitobotta• 15 years ago

Cool, it's also a nice way to discover repos and projects

adulau• 15 years ago

Nice idea and implementation. I would love to see Europe and all the countries in the EU. By the way, is the software for Githits on GitHub?

drdaeman• 15 years ago

Would love to see the ability to type in any city/country and see the stats.

mcantelon• 15 years ago

Vancouver includes Vancouver, WA and Vancouver, Canada. Otherwise nice little mashup.

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

Thanks, and good catch, this is being updated right now including historical data.

RK• 15 years ago

Seems that the majority of people I follow do not list their location, so view these lists with that in mind.

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

That is correct. I actually like this because it allows people to opt-out. If they want to be shown, they will have to set their location correctly :)

jashkenas3• 15 years ago

Looks like it doesn't pick up repos owned by organizations that have their location listed. That would be nice.

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

it should, if I'm understanding you correctly. which org and repo are you looking at?

jashkenas3• 15 years ago

https://github.com/documentcloud

cldwalker• 15 years ago

Nice. For anyone interested, here's how to do location-based user searching in github: https://github.com/search?type=Users&language=&q=loc...

icco• 15 years ago

Question: How are you picking the cities? Is it just cities that you know of, or are they the top github using cities, or arbitrary?

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

Arbitrary + github cities with sufficient data. I have a lot more cities that I'm not showing because there isn't enough data.

nkassis2• 15 years ago

Could you possibly add Montreal Canada? :)

HedgeMage• 15 years ago

May we have Indianapolis, Indiana please? :)

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

I already have most of Indianapolis, I will put it up soon.

s-phi-nl• 15 years ago

I am a little curious how you detect where I am. For me it shows "Philadelphia", which is indeed the city nearest my hometown, but I am currently at my college in Minnesota, so my IP address would show that I am there.

aaronfeng15• 15 years ago

I don't. It defaults to Philly because that's where I'm from and I didn't have time to add a landing page before someone submitted this.

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