From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T06:42:19+09:00
Subject: Re: myspace meets tucows and planetsourcecode?

On Fri, Oct 13, 2006, Mad Scientist Jr wrote:
> Is there a myspace type site that is a place for programmers to post
> their apps for people to download? It would have to be user friendly
> like tucows but allow a programmer to create their own home page where
> they can post their apps (including open source if they wish). People
> can network and link to each other, rate other's apps, and search for
> code by platform/language/keyword/most popular, etc. It would support
> EVERY platform imaginable, from 8-bit atari code to .NET and Java apps.
> Does anything like this exist?

SourceForge: http://sf.net
RubyForge for Ruby-specific stuff: http://rubyforge.org

It's not everything you want, but it's enough.  I don't think anybody
*really* wants to be able to rate the quality of other developer's apps.
Hot or Not doesn't have much of a place in the development community.

Ben