Voice Note Transcript

Date: 26/03/2026 Source: 26_03_2026_15_58.m4a Transcription: AssemblyAI

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Okay, I'm recording this voice note today just to record some context data for an app that I think would be really useful just for my own purposes, but an open source project. So GitHub is great. And one of the, besides using it to open source my own stuff and as a code place to host code, basically one of the things I like to do, and it's usually a separate process from using it for that is just seeing what's out there. So I'll commonly, you know, search for stuff like AI agents, whisper speech, tech areas that I'm interested in. And I guess what I'm looking for usually is just to see what people are doing and to see if there's any tools that I might be able to use myself for my own project. So it's kind of a way of keeping up to date with what's coming out. And actually frequently I think by doing this I end up finding things that I didn't know someone had built or it'll lead to learning. The AI evolved so quickly, the most efficient way of doing things, what actually ends up happening in practice is I end up starring things that I want to check out and it just becomes this huge list of stars. So there's two things that I think would be great when I, when I star things. I guess the intention is to look into those repositories, like give them a good look. And if it's a tool I may want to use myself, the intention might be to actually clone it and try to run it. And it's often a non. Usually would be, probably be a non, whatever the word is, synchronous process. Like it's. Usually I'm in this context of exploring, I want to put down stars and I want. Then when I'm at my computer again in a separate context, I might actually want to do the trying them out. So GitHub, the Android client, like the, the main one that I'm using is I think, not very well designed for this. Like if I go into the app now and I Click on Explore. GitHub. GitHub. All right, if I go into Explore. So it has like top repos trending today, this week and this month and it shows me, yeah, that's it. Like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, okay, maybe 10 or 20. But basically there's so much more than this on GitHub and I'm just looking at one that's like an open source cms, which is amazing because I want to, I need to set up a CMS at the moment so this is an example. I see this, I star it and I don't want to forget about it. But by only showing you like 10 or 20, it shows you just like a tiny, tiny sliver of what's actually coming out on GitHub. And there's no way to like infinitely scroll or to load more. They just give you that amount. So that's the explore one. And then in the search functionality it's kind of cumbersome because I'm just putting in mcp. I'm always looking for stuff using mcp. New MCP servers, it says code with MCP repositories with MCP issues, pull requests, people, organizations. Now I have never developed on my phone. I would just, I hate the idea of trying to do that. So I never. All I want to do is find repos. So that's the first point of friction as I don't need all the other like jumpers. I would much rather just have a search and I'm looking again. Let's see how far I guess I get from the first one is an AWS repo. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 again maybe 20 or 30. And the same problem. There is no way to get beyond it. And what I find is it's usually in the long tail of these keywords that I end up finding good things. So I'd happily go through you know, a thousand page, a thousand MCP projects paginated to find good stuff to start and then have it than just only be able to see the first 20. So the question is really for I guess viability. GitHub I think has a pretty well developed API and I think it's, I think it might be free. I'm sure there's a rate limit but anyway I'm paying for GitHub so I should hopefully be able to get some decent amount of usage out of it. And I guess probably would be Android. And I'm thinking of like kind of a Tinder interface actually might be really cool. Well, okay, two ideas. Number one is explore without those frustrations. Search and explore where you have like a lot of, a lot of results. There's no limit or maybe it's 500 instead of 20 but significantly more interface geared towards searching. Interface geared and then a button for like my starred repos. Wow. 404,327 and I guess my ideal, my ideal flow when I'm, I'm just loading up my starred repos here and it's struggling maybe because there's so many of them. My ideal flow would be to kind of like go through them once every few days, which is the only reason there are so many is because I don't have a good way to do this. And then I'm looking at what I've just starred. IBM's MCP, Google's One Open Viking sounded interesting. I definitely want to check that one out. And I might say, okay, I've taken it out, I can destar it. Whereas right now if I do want to remove my star, I need to click into the repo and then unstar it. So it's not exactly, not a huge point of friction, but I feel like then the final thing would be to have if I want to use stars as like actually checking, like having a list of things that I marked as potentially interesting and then maybe de star them. It would seem a pity to just lose the D stars. In other words, maybe this app would have its own backend, simply a table like start repos. And if I remove a star, it will save it there so that I can check my current star list and also see the ones that I looked at in the past if required. So this would require. Let me just think anything else. Okay, so explore view number one. Number two, I mentioned Tinder. I don't know if Tinder still still works like this, but let's say I'm looking at MCP just for example, and I let me just type in MCP as a search here, MCP repos. And instead of showing me a list, it might show searching me project by project and I could swipe left, swipe right, and swiping, you know, whatever, whatever way Tinder does it, that interface of swiping and liking saves it or adds it to a start, gives it a star or. And then if the recommendations were, this is a much more complicated feature idea. But if the recommendations were like logical in the sense that as I'm presenting things, it's not representing repos I've already seen. And it is also learning from what I do, like what kind of projects I find interesting. But that is the. That that could be called the stretch idea implementation. Where would I like this? I would say 90%. This would be something mobile like I'm doing right now. I'm. I'm pan died on my bed and I'm in like, I'm in a mood where I'd love to, I'd love to really dig into recent browser projects on GitHub and I don't find with the native GitHub app that I can do that very well. So it's in summary, a GitHub app designed GitHub integrated app designed primarily for those who want to explore what's out there, as opposed to for using it for the primary intended means of code version controlling. And with that, over and out.