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Hi, my friend @elklein96 and I created GitPapers over the weekend in CodeDay Philly (won Top Overall). It is in a very very early stage but I do want to see how HN thinks about the overall concept and it's current features.

Thanks.

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If you haven't looked at Jekyll, I'd look at it and see how they're doing things like post metadata using yaml. It's definitely not something to replace the existing static blog generator they have, but it's a cool project for just tinkering with things like the github API.

IF you want it to be a truly usable project, I'd say you need to make it themable and not depend on parsing the file name for the post titles.

There is no description of how it's supposed to work.

When I log in with my github login all I see is a mostly empty page with no explanation of what to do next.

So as far as I can tell, all that's implemented is "log in with github". I don't see any blogging functionality.

Looks like you just need to fork the repo they've created or have a repo called 'gitpapers-blog' and login with github, and the posts will show up.

Looks like it was just a fun learning project for them.

I'd say it'd be helpful to add to the documentation that you have to login to gitpapers after forking or creating the repo in the explanation for clarities sake.

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