Hey everyone! I’m Osman, the maker of _gitinder. The idea started from a simple frustration: discovering interesting repositories on GitHub often means scrolling through endless lists. I wanted to experiment with a different approach — what if you could explore repositories one at a time and simply swipe? So I built _gitinder, a swipe based GitHub discovery app where: swipe right → star a repository swipe left → skip it The project is built with SwiftUI and the GitHub API, and it was also a fun technical challenge. Along the way I had to deal with things like: • GitHub Search API limitations (especially OR queries) • batching star/unstar API requests efficiently • implementing GitHub OAuth without exposing secrets • syncing local UI state with the GitHub API One fun easter egg I added: if you set the star limit to -1, the app stops searching GitHub and just shows my own repositories instead 😅 The project is fully open source, so I’d love feedback, ideas, or suggestions from the community. Curious what people think about the swipe-based discovery idea for open source projects!

_gitinder

Swipe based GitHub repo discovery app built with SwiftUI.

Swipe based GitHub repo discovery app built with SwiftUI.