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This looks really interesting. I'm excited to see someone is working to bring GitHub to iOS.

Looking at the screenshots, it looks like it could use some UI polish (http://worqshop.com/). For now, this will keep me from dropping $5 on this. My primary use case would be writing text (not code), and for that I value the great UI/UX of iA Writer over being able to save directly to GitHub.

I'd be curious to hear what other common use cases there are for this. In addition to writing text (Jekyll-powered blog), I might use this to make quick fixes on the go or review issues/pull requests.

It seems like actually writing significant amounts of code on the iPad is probably not a common use case. I refuse to believe this is productive compared to using a real computer with multitasking, Vim/emacs/Sublime Text, etc.

Anyway, if this were my app I'd focus on making the experience great for doing issues/pull requests and typing text (in comments on the aforementioned or in files). I wouldn't focus on actually writing code. But it's clearly not my app :)

In any case, great work -- I'm looking forward to seeing this app progress.

Very useful though when doing the 90% of code work that isn't composing new stuff from scratch. A real gift for people doing lots of code review. As you say great support for issues would go a long way toward that.

The website's meta viewport is fixed and explicitly disallows pinch and zoom gestures and you want to sell IOS apps?

Dude doesn't get IOS usability. At all.

Does it support the iPad 1? I'd have bought it right now if it had a dark theme + coffeescript highlighting (currently making up most of my work).

These products and others allowing one to save text or code to Github seem to be begging for Github to introduce a staging feature in the API. It would allow saving code Into an intermediate uncommitted state, but could even be implementing as a lightweight stash-like feature. A set of changes could be individually stored or just committed through UI/API.

This seems fantastic, makes me wish I had an iPad. I love the option for side by side web browser and code (especially in landscape).

It would be great if there was an option for side by side SSH session and code editor, that way you could push and then check on the remote build (for people that have such setups).

Do you think the rubberband bounce-back effect is slightly too violent? Maybe the bounce back animation timing curve could be ease-out?

Otherwise, looks like an awesome app!

I was going to buy it, but it requires iOS 6. Shame.

You should change your appstore name to "Worqshop, a github client for iPhone" then you will show up in iOS spotlight searches for github

That's terrible, it's a shame that publishers have to do that. It shouldn't even be allowed.

I'm talking about the search box on the SpringBoard (aka, the search box when you swipe left from the home screen).

That will allow people to search there for github and see the app in the list of launchable items.

This has nothing to do with the appstore other than a way to get a keyword on the phone. The App KEYWORDS do not help the on Springboard Spotlight search.

I can confirm that isn't necessary. It shows up as a search result when I search for "github" on my iPad's App Store app right now.

I imagine the devs were wise enough to include "github" in the list of search keywords that you're allowed to attach to your App Store submission.

I'm talking about the search box on the SpringBoard (aka, the search box when you swipe left from the home screen).

That will allow people to search there for github and see the app in the list of launchable items.

Site doesn't seem to be browsable on my iPad? Was trying to check out anything besides the main page and I couldn't.

Does this support organizations?

Yup :)

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