Githits

[schrototo]

I think I'm blind now...

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

[aaronfeng]

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

[aaronfeng]

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

[jrockway]

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.

[cldwalker]

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]

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?

[aaronfeng]

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

[damncabbage]

Kindly requesting Australia. :)

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

[aaronfeng]

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

[zheng]

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

[icefox]

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]

Looking to hire a local programmer would be one use.

[RK]

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

[aaronfeng]

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 :)

[kingkilr]

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

[icefox]

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).

[postfuturist]

Portland is part of Washington? No.

[vitobotta]

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

[adulau]

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]

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

[catshirt]

nodejitsu, coffeescript, lithium, etc. nyc rules.

[mcantelon]

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

[aaronfeng]

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

[s-phi-nl]

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.

[aaronfeng]

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.

[jashkenas]

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

[aaronfeng]

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

[HedgeMage]

May we have Indianapolis, Indiana please? :)

[aaronfeng]

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

[axx]

Damn, the color scheme looks terrible!