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Ask HN: What is your most popular GitHub repo?

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Much to my surprise, it's https://github.com/Ovid/DB--Color

Screenshot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/publius_ovidius/5208642982/

That's my work to bring syntax highlighting to the Perl debugger. It involves some deep magic with the debugger and still needs more work, but people are very happy with it.

Lucky for me and my ego, we're not comparing popularity relative to one another... anyway this is an implementation of perceptual hashing in PHP, to catch image reposting on forums and imageboards. It counts as the 'most popular' because it's the only repo I have that anyone's contributed to or made a fork of so far (they did it in js)

https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher

This is a great idea! I think there should be a monthly thread for HN'ers to show off their projects. Or maybe a special category for posts about projects, which you can filter based on.

Wait a minute, I'm describing Show HN...is there a way to filter and see only Show HN posts?

Unfortunately there's no way to do that on HN, but if you use HN Search it's pretty easy: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22Show+HN...

https://github.com/swanson/stringer by far

I've noticed that very few projects are able to get a high star count without 1) a clear value proposition in the README 2) screenshots, screenshots, screenshots.

That looks really nice. Is there a live site up somewhere or do I have to do it myself? :)

It is self-hosted - one user per instance.

Beeing featured by The Changelog probably helped a lot too.

I created a mildly popular LAMP Stack template for Vagrant using Chef [1]. Proud of every single one of the 40 stars. Hehe.

[1] https://github.com/MiniCodeMonkey/Vagrant-LAMP-Stack

A sprite tool. My biggest ever single-handed project. I don't know how many man hours it represents and probably rather wouldn't. https://github.com/darkFunction/darkFunction-Editor

I made a lightweight CSS grid, and I'm blown away by the 700+ stars. Creating something that people can use is a wonderful feeling.

https://github.com/ThisIsDallas/Simple-Grid

Very embarassingly, https://github.com/L8D/delvs

Almost every project I have is completely unseen and just there for personal use or my stupid amusement.

An Octopress theme. It's the first repo that I've made with the intention for others to use.

https://github.com/alexgaribay/octoflat

It only has a handful of stars & forks, and is pretty terrible/hacked together.

https://github.com/dannytatom/muddy

Staff management app Team Sheet http://hey-jimmy.github.io/TeamSheet/

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