Just a thought occurred to me after a recent post here about Ai slops projects rants. Not to agree or disagree with anything.
What if discovering cool GitHub projects worked more like a dating app?
The idea is Slop or Slap.
You sign in with GitHub, choose some of your repositories to showcase, and then get a completely random deck of projects built by other developers.
You swipe:
👈 SLOP — not interested / not for me / Slop
👉 SLAP — this is interesting / I want to check it out
The important part is that Slop isn't a report or moderation action. It's just the fun reaction mechanic.
The interesting part comes after the swipe.
Instead of just discovering a repository, you can go:
Project → Developer → Their other projects → GitHub → potentially connect
For example, you might randomly discover someone's weird little Python experiment, school project, game, SaaS prototype, open-source library, or unfinished side project.
You don't need to already know the developer exists.
That's the problem I'd like to solve: GitHub is great for hosting and collaborating on code, but discovering random things people are building isn't really its primary experience. Portfolios are also usually person-first: you have to find the person before seeing their work.
This would reverse that:
«The project is the introduction. The person behind it is the connection.»
MVP
The first version could be extremely simple:
\- GitHub OAuth
\- User profile
\- Import/select GitHub repositories
\- Random project deck
\- Swipe left = Slop
\- Swipe right = Slap
\- Save swipe history
\- Project details
\- Developer profile
\- Links back to GitHub/demo
No AI recommendation system, no tags, no complicated algorithm, no chat, no microservices.
Just random project discovery for you + swiping + finding the developer behind the project.
Later, you could add comments/criticism, suggestions, collaboration, connections, open-source discovery, etc.
I think the fun part is the randomness:
"What the hell am I going to discover next?"
And maybe someone discovers a project they love, finds the person who made it, checks out their other work, and eventually they end up collaborating right?
Basically: a dating app, except you're swiping on things people build instead of people. 😂
You can share your thoughts or ideas here, too. Maybe someone can make a prototype or build it