I'm not all that interested in being able to use Git itself on my phone or even tablet. It's not practical, and there already exists several decent apps for doing so.
I'd much rather have Github provide an app that shows me trends and analytics that only they have access to. There are (or were) a few sites and apps that provided a way to see most starred repos by various criteria like all-time vs last week, language, company, search term, etc., but they're hit or miss, and often die when Github changes their API.
Not only is it very helpful for my career, but I also personally enjoy seeing what is becoming very popular out there, and what I might be able to use on future projects.
I think Github is missing out on some money if they don't end up monetizing their knowledge of what projects are most popular (beyond just stars and forks) - any project lead or architect who is still using sales teams, marketing, etc. to decide on what tools and frameworks to use is going to be left in the dust by the ones who keep up to date on what's trending at Github, especially for higher level projects related to Kubernetes, clustering, DB scaling, etc.
I'd much rather have Github provide an app that shows me trends and analytics that only they have access to. There are (or were) a few sites and apps that provided a way to see most starred repos by various criteria like all-time vs last week, language, company, search term, etc., but they're hit or miss, and often die when Github changes their API.
Not only is it very helpful for my career, but I also personally enjoy seeing what is becoming very popular out there, and what I might be able to use on future projects.
I think Github is missing out on some money if they don't end up monetizing their knowledge of what projects are most popular (beyond just stars and forks) - any project lead or architect who is still using sales teams, marketing, etc. to decide on what tools and frameworks to use is going to be left in the dust by the ones who keep up to date on what's trending at Github, especially for higher level projects related to Kubernetes, clustering, DB scaling, etc.