Second! aka how does GitHub starts new projects

@elcuervo!

Almost every feature on github.com and project we publish comes from tackling a problem we face ourselves. For choosealicense.com it was a personal interest of @haacked's:

I’m interested in helping developers be explicit and clear about their intent for their code.

Hubot was born out a desire to make Chat the core of our workflow. He builds and deploys code, graphs metrics, and most importantly finds animated gifs.

These types of efforts arise organically from the bottom up, but they aren't single person efforts. Part of our ethos is Never Work Alone™. Find a buddy and tackle it together. Chances are, if you can't convince someone to work on something with you, the idea might need some work.

We open source work that truly has value outside of GitHub, isn't core to our business, and for which we can put in the time to document it and maintain it. Boxen is a great example of this.

Any Über secret project that didn't make it to the spotlight that you'd like to share?

We don't like to comment on future plans because plans change. We prefer to Surprise and Delight™. :sparkles:

pengwynn / pingwynn

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