I've taken to posting my designs on Github (works well for me since I'm

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I’ve taken to posting my designs on Github (works well for me since I’m a programmer :slight_smile: but I’m wondering if there’s a good way to find/index other designs out there (if not I’m considering building one :)?

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Do you mean specifically on GitHub, or anywhere? You might want to take a look at the last link in the “About this community” box (Bld3r.com). Also, there’s the Thing Tracker Network project. There are other aggregators as well.

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Hi Norm. Yeah specifically for searching designs on Github; are you aware of any aggregators that craw there?

I thought of Bld3r but I wasn’t sure if it indexed Github or not. I’m actively following TTN as well and should probably contribute something to that project :slight_smile:

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Sorry, not specifically for GitHub.

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BTW Cubehero seems to work like a nice front end to GitHub.

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Thanks @Normand_Chamberland , I’ll check out CubeHero!

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Jason, some of us have been slowly working on this: http://thingtracker.net

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@Ross_Hendrickson Yeah, the key word being “slowly” sadly :frowning: There’s so many facets to work on it seems that progress is hard to make.

My next goal is to produce an “alpha-alpha” version of the client and make it available to anyone brave enough to try it out (with the caveat that it might not work at all!). I’m currently building binaries on mac and linux (my home PC is a Windows box) so that it should be easy for people to participate.

Alongside that I was thinking of how to implement a distributed search strategy amongst the nodes of the network. My current thinking is that a node can make a search request and it is federated out to all other nodes, who can reply directly to the originator. I don’t know if this would adversely affect network performance though. The other idea would be to distribute indexes amongst the clients, possibly within the DHT, which are periodically updated. Hmmm, any search specialists out there perhaps? :slight_smile:

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I do have some search experience :slight_smile: just need something to search first. I think it would work similar to how c most engines with today, something would periodically index the network and then would query over that cached representation.