GitHub is the first app that actually makes me want to start new projects, open-source old projects, and get involved in other people's projects just as an excuse to use the site.

Big ups to defunkt, mojombo, and pjhyett for their work in this space.

Likewise here. GitHub has encouraged me to publish some side projects that otherwise would have lingered on my hard disk. Getting an email saying someone has started watching one of them is sure motivation to get my ass in gear and do some work on it. GitHub also worked splendidly for a recent freelance job.

Keep up the good work guys.

"They say it's hard to live in San Francisco and not take funding, but I beg to differ: out here it's easy to get lucrative consulting gigs and fill your bank account. Contract for someone else with funding, make some money, save it up, then spend it on your company. You don't have to sell your soul to a VC or live off of ramen. Just be smart."

Brilliant secondary effects of venture capital funding.

Chris and Tom are prolific hackers. I'm always amazed by the volume of quality code they produce. They definitely deserve all of the success they've achieved.

GitHub is not only a stellar product, it is also changing the world.

SourceForge, RubyForge, and others should take note. This is a great model of how social code should be done.

From someone who has to deal with CVS on sourceforge, a HUGE THANK YOU to the GitHub crew!

Now I just have to convince the other developers to move the project to GitHub.

i completely agree that this was a great article, and in the last 5 minutes it took to read i could feel myself wanting to get my side project off the ground that much more -- thanks for the boost guys!