GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over a million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
- GitHub was founded in April, 2008
- GitHub HQ is in San Francisco
- Founders: Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett
- Employees: 95 (see https://github.com/about for a current number)
- Approximately half of the GitHub team works remotely
- Launched GitHub.com, April, 2008
- GitHub Organizations, June, 2010
- GitHub Jobs, August, 2010
- GitHub for Mac, June, 2011
- GitHub Issues for iOS, August, 2011
- GitHub Enterprise, November, 2011
- GitHub for Windows, May, 2012
- Subversion support on GitHub.com, June, 2012
- GitHub for Eclipse, June, 2012
- 1.7MM+ developers use GitHub
- GitHub hosts over three million software repositories
- (see https://github.com/about/press for current numbers)
On an average day on GitHub.com:
- 80k public repositories are updated
- 7k people push their very first repository to GitHub.com
- 4k people fork a repository for the first time
- 4k people create their first pull request
- 30k issues are created
- 12k pull requests are created
- 4k people join GitHub.com