GitHub Hits One Million Hosted Projects

by bkudria on 7/25/2010, 6:00 AM with 19 comments
  • by guac on 7/25/2010, 7:17 AM

    I'm extremely happy at GitHub's success. It's one of my favorite sites. But it seems a bit strange to count gists as projects. I use them like I used to use pastebin.

  • by asnyder on 7/25/2010, 9:50 AM

    The numbers are slightly misleading. 40% of those projects are gists (pastebin like service). While those gists COULD turn into full projects, it's doubtful. Thus the number is more like 600,000 hosted projects.

  • by microtonal on 7/25/2010, 12:43 PM

    It's well deserved. Github made project hosting a pleasant experience. For opensource projects we had Sourceforge and Berlios before, but their approval processes were tedious and seemed random at times. With Github you are set up within a few seconds to share code. Git made forking/cloning easy, Github made forking trivial. Their Jekyll-based Github pages is also great.

  • by metabrew on 7/25/2010, 8:45 AM

    Anyone know the ratio of public/private repos?

  • by catch23 on 7/25/2010, 7:31 AM

    I wonder if forks are considered projects too...

  • by cgbystrom on 7/25/2010, 10:46 AM

    In comparison, how many hosted repositories do BitBucket have?

    Tried Google with no luck.

  • by xinuc on 7/25/2010, 9:47 AM

    I think there are lots and lots of companies can't run smoothly without GitHub anymore.. Mine is one of those...