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Austin Spires
July 19, 2013
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How GitHub Makes Things
My keynote for the Tokyo MashupAwards 9 hackathon
Austin Spires
July 19, 2013
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Transcript
How Makes Things Tuesday, July 23, 13
I’m Austin Tuesday, July 23, 13
What’s GitHub? Tuesday, July 23, 13
Way to build software Tuesday, July 23, 13
Way to build software ... with friends Tuesday, July 23,
13
Way to build software ... in your company Tuesday, July
23, 13
Way to build software ... in open source Tuesday, July
23, 13
Way to build software ... on Mac, Windows and Linux
Tuesday, July 23, 13
Way to build software ... and share it with the
world Tuesday, July 23, 13
180 Employees 3.8 MM Developers 7.4 MM Projects Tuesday, July
23, 13
Coupon Code: StartupTokyo github.com/settings/billing Tuesday, July 23, 13
GitHub is a Hackathon Tuesday, July 23, 13
People choose what they want to work on” “We don’t
have anyone that’s a manager... - Tom Preston Werner, CEO Tuesday, July 23, 13
Grit Make Me Halp Tuesday, July 23, 13
Grit https://github.com/mojombo/grit Tuesday, July 23, 13
@mojombo @defunkt Zeke’s Tuesday, July 23, 13
Grit Tuesday, July 23, 13
Grit Manage Git Repositories in Ruby Tuesday, July 23, 13
+ 6 Months (Nights and Weekends) @defunkt @mojombo @pjhyett Tuesday,
July 23, 13
Tuesday, July 23, 13
The Formula Worked! Tuesday, July 23, 13
Make Me https://github.com/make-me/make-me Tuesday, July 23, 13
Replicator 2 Tuesday, July 23, 13
Problem Tuesday, July 23, 13
Slow input for 180+ people Tuesday, July 23, 13
Enterprise Backend + @sshirokov @skalnik Tuesday, July 23, 13
Make Me Tuesday, July 23, 13
Make Me Control MakerBot Replicator 2 from Chat Tuesday, July
23, 13
Seems Silly? Tuesday, July 23, 13
+ 3 Months @sshirokov @skalnik @benbalter Tuesday, July 23, 13
STL Rendering Tuesday, July 23, 13
GeoJSON Rendering Tuesday, July 23, 13
GitHub is a Hackathon Tuesday, July 23, 13
It works for internal tools too! Tuesday, July 23, 13
Halp Tuesday, July 23, 13
Support and Messaging Tuesday, July 23, 13
Support and Messaging If you email us, it goes through
Halp Tuesday, July 23, 13
2009 Tuesday, July 23, 13
2009 GitHub Support = 1 Person @tekkub Tuesday, July 23,
13
Needed to integrate off the shelf support tools with GitHub
Tuesday, July 23, 13
API Tuesday, July 23, 13
UI Application Database Server Tuesday, July 23, 13
UI API Tuesday, July 23, 13
UI Application Database Server API Tuesday, July 23, 13
UI Application Database Server Tuesday, July 23, 13
Dev Support Tuesday, July 23, 13
Dev Support Developer #1 Tuesday, July 23, 13
18 Jobs from 1 API Plugin Tuesday, July 23, 13
So, what are the lessons? Tuesday, July 23, 13
#1 Work Together Tuesday, July 23, 13
If you’re building alone, you’ll quit. If you’re building together,
you’ll finish Tuesday, July 23, 13
#2 Aim Small, Ship Fast Tuesday, July 23, 13
“Rome wasn’t built in a day” Tuesday, July 23, 13
Rome started small Tuesday, July 23, 13
Rome started small Everything does Tuesday, July 23, 13
Grit Make Me API Plugin Tuesday, July 23, 13
GitHub Render Halp Tuesday, July 23, 13
#3 Don’t Stop Shipping Tuesday, July 23, 13
Do everything you can to stay excited Tuesday, July 23,
13
Work with friends Tuesday, July 23, 13
Build fun features Work with friends Tuesday, July 23, 13
Build fun features Work with friends Show off your work!
Tuesday, July 23, 13
Most important... Tuesday, July 23, 13
Forget the haters. Just make things. Tuesday, July 23, 13
Coupon Code: StartupTokyo github.com/aspires @austinspires
[email protected]
Tuesday, July 23, 13