Not OP, but I was wondering how they compare to ZeroCater, which is also YC-backed, feeds some big names like GitHub, Foursquare and Tumblr, and has all those billboards up and down 101.
Zesty also serves GitHub, and Zesty usually handles their events. There is a lot of business in town; more than enough to go around. And you don't need billboards to be a market leader.
I'm curious about the reasoning behind including that annoying circle with a down indicator inside that appears shortly after the page loads and bounces at the bottom of the page until you first scroll that page.
It seems to serve no purpose other than to let you know that there is more data to be had by scrolling, but surely pretty much everyone who is going to see that page already has learned about scrolling. It's one of the first web browsing skills more people learn.
Unlike celebrity culture, popularity in the open source world translates to actual impact on the web. As an author of a popular library, your code plays a direct part in how other developers structure their codebase, and -- depending on the library -- the end user experience.
And, yeah, impact/change/popularity (whatever you want to call it) is certainly a main reason behind releasing and maintaining open source software. Perhaps other dominant reasons include giving users differently opionionated alternatives that better suit their workflow, advancing the technical know-how of a field, and simply experimenting for expressiveness' sake.
Exactly. That's why we removed any mention of a "score" from the copywriting before launching. We realized how vague a score could be. We focus on site counts now, since they're raw/unfiltered data.
what's interesting about the work we've done on libscore is that it shows the end result -- whether a lib was actually ultimately used on a site. npm can tell you download stats, but that's where its data ends.
This is an odd statement since I know there are at least two direct competitors who are far larger.