As developers, we put a lot of work into our GitHub repos to make them as useful as possible for others, but great projects sometimes go under-appreciated, and under-starred. Asking for stars is tacky, but publicly thanking your supporters by name in your README file is a sign of appreciation that happens to incentivize more users to join the crowd. And implementation is just a copy and paste from my Repo Roster project. Wouldn't it be worth a click to you to see if your profile went live on a repo's README?
What does it look like?
I like to use rosters as the footer of my README. Here's an example from my Rando.js repo:
How do I implement it?
You can copy the markdown from my Repo Roster repo and fill in your username/repo data manually, or you can visit the Repo Roster website, paste in a link to your personal repo, and copy the resulting markdown. Then, just paste that wherever you want it to appear in your README. That's all there is to it! From then on, data about your supporters will automatically update right in your README.md file.
Top comments (17)
Thanks, this is very cool. I have used it now for most of my git projects and it looks awesome.
Given a star for your project, it deserves all the stars :)..
Exactly... Me too
Are you going to open source the frontend and/or the backend?
I just published the backend on the repo and added an "UNLICENSE" license so everyone's free to host it themselves if so desired.
Are you going to open source the frontend? It is probably really simple that anyone could implement but there are somethings I want to contribute to it.
You mean the website? I don't really consider that the point of the project, so I probably wont put it on GitHub, but frontend stuff is always accessible through the browser. Feel free to grab it and message me your suggestions on here. I'll be happy to take a look!
Awesome. That's clever. "Social Proof" always helps when you are trying to achieve a people goal.
Hello
Can we talk about the online business?
hey, feel free to send me a direct message on here. i check them regularly
I don't know how to send a direct message
You can message me @nastyox1 on twitter, or you can reply to the email I sent to the address listed on your profile.
This is really well done. Definitely considering it for Forem 😄
Thanks! I wanted it to be right at the initial release, so I spent extra time developing it up front. Your support on my articles and projects here has been very cool. I'll keep an eye on Forem :)
Awesome! Added to github.com/bretgeek/yumjs
Whoa! Could you make one for sponsors?
Glad you like it! I think contributors, watchers, and followers would be the easiest to add. I see what you're talking about with sponsors here. I do not see sponsors in GitHub's API, but that doesn't mean it's impossible, just potentially less reliable. As I develop the project, I'll include this as a feature. Just make sure you're watching the project or doing whatever you prefer to keep up with it so you don't miss out
Very cool 👏