Hi friends! I'm excited to introduce you to GitQuest, the first git leaderboard for developers ๐
GitQuest is the first platform that turns your coding contributions into a game-like adventure where developers earn points, climb leaderboards, and win real prizes.
๐ฎ How It Works
- Commit & Conquer: Every git activity counts! Make commits, create pull requests, and contribute to open-source projects to earn points
- Climb the Leaderboard: Compete with developers worldwide and see your rank rise with each contribution
- Win Rewards: Top performers can earn exciting prizes including:
โข ๐ Project visibility opportunities
โข ๐ Exclusive discounts on developer tools and SaaS products
โข ๐ Social media recognition
โข ๐ Weekly and monthly competitions
Ready to join the quest? ๐
This is awesome!! I am sure some companies would love to host an internal version of this for some of their open source repos.
The concept is quite impressive! Having something similar to Product Hunt but specifically for GitHub projects is a great approach. I can envision you organizing a Hackathon in the future to further develop this idea.
This is such a cool idea for someone like me just starting out in the industry. It's helping me stay motivated to commit more often.
One feature I'd want to see is a badge system for specific achievements like contributing to beginner friendly projects or maintaining high quality commits.
This is such a brilliant idea!! Is there a max point to earn per period? LIke, 100 per day or something?
Great idea! Iโll definitely give it a try. My only concern is that I have two GitHub profiles - one work profile for all my company-related stuff and one personal account for all my side projects and contributions. I guess thereโs no way to combine my score based on contributions from both profiles. ๐ค
The idea is quite good. Something like Product Hunt for GitHub. I can see that in the future you will make a Hackathon. โ๏ธ
That's nice! The idea of rewarding activity - especially in open source projects - is great. But I have two feedback points with potentially issues:
- The idea suffers from the "platform" approach. You need a lot of people on your app to have a relevant leaderboard with significant rewards (Project visibility is great if the audience is big). That's not inherently bad, but it will be hard to reach that critical mass.
- A leaderboard like this promotes "bad commits". Some people create mini PRs that don't have any benefit besides them now being a contributor and increasing their commit count. I think you could conter-act that by having an effective calculation on the count of "successful PRs", meaning merged PRs to projects that:
- Are not owned by the users themselves
- Have at least a small following (to avoid spam)
Just my two cents. Overall a great idea, but with lot's of small things you may want to look at in order to make sure that gitquest really becomes a success.
Wishing you all the best :)
