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GitSpo — Measure & engage your open-source community
GitSpo aggregates GitHub, NPM and PyPI data, and alerts open-source developers when their projects are mentioned on websites like Twitter, Reddit and Hacker News.
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Hello 👋
This is my favourite side project. I have built it so that I would know when people are talking about my projects and in what contexts my projects are being mentioned. The goal is to measure what impact social mentions have to product adoption and to create opportunities for developers to engage their communities outside of GitHub.
* track project mentions 👂
* track competition 👀
* measure project growth 🚀
* measure advertising campaign success 📈
* identify talent in the community 🧙♂️
* identify trends 💅
* talk to the community (more about this later!)
Currently GitSpo aggregates data from 10 different websites, including dev.to, GitHub, Gitter, Hacker News, Hashnode, Medium, Reddit, Stack Exchange, Stack Overflow and Twitter. In total I caught 800k+ project mentions. This excludes bot activity (I detect and filter our CI and similar bots) and repeat/ near duplicate mentions.
My favourite feature is the trending projects section, https://gitspo.com/trending. I have stumbled upon some very cool tech this way in the past couple of months, and seeing the comments on social media about those projects allowed me to form an informed opinion about the potential use cases.
You don't need to sign up to view mentions of your projects, e.g. If your repository is https://github.com/jasonmayes/Re..., then you can:
* https://gitspo.com/mentions/jaso... view all project mentions.
* https://gitspo.com/mentions/jaso... view all project owner mentions.
However, signing up will give you access to a newsletter about your trending projects and an analytics that shows how your projects are growing and where the users are coming from.
Hope you like it and will have suggestions how to improve it. 🎉
p.s. I am in San Francisco for the next 3 months. I am participating in https://www.beondeck.com/. I don't have many friends here yet & I will happily join anyone in ProductHunt community for a trek, drinks or a startup talk.
@kuizinas Out of interest, why does GitSpo need read access to my GitHub following, starred repos and watched repos, instead of just accessing the list of my personal repos?
@kuizinas To see stats for my own repos, I'd assume you only need access to a list of my repos, and then scan for social media or web mentions of my repo's name.
Does this mean that you're combining social media/web keyword scanning with the following/starred/watched lists of users who log into GitSpo?
@iamsebj Unfortunately, to view traffic (https://developer.github.com/v3/...) you need to have read access.
Yes, I do combine those data points and many more. The next generation of GitSpo will focus on ways to contact the community and then measure engagement.
@nguyenkims Hi, I like simplelogin.io! Well done. Have you launched it on PH?
What queries would you like to see and how would you use it?
@nguyenkims The projects are found by mentions of GitHub URL, not project name. Try mention.com
It sounds like a very useful idea. It's hard to keep track of what's going on on social media. What kind of keywords are you tracking?
@mgreiler Loads! Anything to do with open-source. For what it is worth, 90% of relevant mentions include either github.com or npmjs.com URLs.
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