Yatko (yatko.app) turns github.com/owner/repo into clean download links that pick the right release asset for each visitor's OS and architecture. Swap the domain — one click to the right binary.

For a lot of beginners, Github can be quite complex and intimidating. And even for the advanced people, maneuvering through the Github Releases page to find the right installation file for their OS and architecture. I've created Yatko for that reason. Yatko serves you the right installation file for your OS and architecuture. With Yatko, every installation is just one download button away. All you need to do is enter the name of the repo which you want to install on the frontpage, and Yatko will serve the download link to you directly. That's not even the best feature of Yatko. Just change the domain name of any public Github repo to a Yatko, for example github.com/cli/cli to yatko.app/cli/cli and you'll be taken straight to a much simpler installation procedure. Yatko is open source as well! So check it out and please let me know if I can make any improvements to it. Contributions are welcome as well! Website: yatko.app Repo link: github.com/argval/yatko (Make sure to star it if you like it!)

This fixes one of those tiny GitHub UX problems that almost everyone has run into at some point. The domain-swap idea is particularly clever :) How do you handle repos with unusual release naming or multiple valid binaries for the same OS/architecture?

Yatko

The download button Github forgot to add

The download button Github forgot to add