i-made-this is the best way to quickly deploy high-quality projects on GitHub.
Why struggle through building something impressive when plenty of developers have already done it?
Just copy someone else's code and take credit for it!
Most devs have to go through the entire software development process. This is a long journey. It involves:
- Coming up with a good idea.
- Planning your implementation.
- Developing the program.
- Testing your code.
- Refining it to fix any bugs you discover in testing.
- Releasing the software.
With i-made-this, you can skip directly to step 6!
What does it do?
This script clones an existing github repository, renames it and publishes it to your github profile after removing the git history and license.
- Create a new repository on GitHub for your hard work to be hosted in.
- Navigate to the local directory you'd like to "build your project" in.
$ ./i-made-thisand follow the prompts.
I found a copy one of my open-source personal projects, shallow-backup, on someone else's GitHub. Now, this is exactly how the open source community should work, right? When you find a project you'd like to contribute to, you fork it and work on it.
Except, this wasn't exactly how my project was copied...
The repo I found had near-identical source code to my repo, except all the information that identified me as the author was removed.
The plagiarizing developer had stripped out:
- Author tags I left at the top of the source code
- MIT license in my name
- Credit for a block of code written by a good friend of mine
Additionally, they had replaced every instance of shallow-backup with a new name and swapped in new graphics.
I figured I could help by automating some of this process.
Ironically, it actually is licensed.
- Comic by neodroidcomics