Kickstarting Hubcap: a Socially Aware GitHub Mac App

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Shouldn't the Hubcap icon have 8 spokes? OctoCap

LOL! Any designers out there?

I also thought of using the octocat image and adding a sweet fedora.

Why not just write a twitter API emulator so that GitHub can integrate with Twitter clients? The interface seems mostly the same.

What a great idea and I would donate if Kickstarter used something other than Amazon payments (which is limited to US-users).

I wonder how much 'caching' the application will do and I hope there will be a project/file browser added in the future.

What exactly are you looking for in a desktop app which the website doesn't provide?

I think a much better idea would be to incorporate GitHub support into a git client, such as tower.

"I want to create a GitHub app for Mac OS X that will allow you to stay up-to-date on the latest activities of your friends and favorite open-source projects."

The activity stream is just not a good tool to stay on top of what's happening when you're watching hundreds of projects.

Caching I guess... of things.

For instance, the GitHub wiki is actually stored within a git repo. Having a local editor/viewer built into this application for the wiki would be useful.

This goes for the ticketing system as well.

And finally, to have a git GUI built into the application would be useful, even at a simple file-browser/log-viewer level (as I would probably use the command-line and tools like Tower for any more complicated requirements).

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