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Is the bounty from almost three years ago, to build a GitHub replacement on Nostr, still active? Since then, several important pieces have been built, and none of it would’ve been possible without @DanConwayDev’s work on ngit or @fiatjaf with GRASP. Have you seen by @arbadacarba? It appears to be a fully functioning GitHub alternative. Finally! With the work from all of them, it seems like that bounty might be close to fulfilled.

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The bounty has done a poor job of incentivizing work on this goal. OpenSats paid Dan to build his project. Everyone else was left to help him (like we did) for no pay, or to build a knock-off edition that basically does the same thing, but in blue, and hope to also get an OpenSats grant. We were initially going for the same solution, but now we're building the opposite, to solve the underlying problem of needing to login with email and a password, and to sign commits with GPG keys. But, he never explicitly said that he wanted to solve for that. The bounty specified GitHub, which is a social website for devs. We have a bunch of those, now.
gitworkshop.dev is pretty good too. And there's also a certain desktop app which is (or should be) a lot faster than what is possible on the web.