Hi friends! I'm excited to introduce you to GitQuest, the first git leaderboard for developers 🚀
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.
🎮 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:
• 🚀 Project visibility opportunities
• 🎁 Exclusive discounts on developer tools and SaaS products
• 👍 Social media recognition
• 🏆 Weekly and monthly competitions
Ready to join the quest? 😉
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 :)
@glenntoews Thanks for your comment and your feedback!
I'am aware of these 2 issues, for the first one, yes of course it'll need a lot of users to be relevant (this is also why launches on PH and other platforms are important). It's slowly growing, but it is growing! For your second feedback, I'm aware of this, this is why I added a daily limit for each contribution, and I sort contributions by types to not allow everything.
@andrew_cho Thanks! There is no limit in points, but there is in contributions, with a limit per type of contributions and per day, to limit cheating as much as possible.
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.
Great idea! I’ll 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 there’s no way to combine my score based on contributions from both profiles. 🤔
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