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Name: Codesnippit
Quick Pitch: Codesnippit is a social site for developers to post their snippets, follow and share code with others and get help.
Genius Idea: If you could miniaturize both GitHub and Stack Overflow and combine them, you might have something like Codesnippit.
Codesnippit is a website for developers to search for small bits of code, post their own “snippets” and share ideas and issues with other developers. The site gives users a timeline of activity and has an asymmetrical following/followers friendship model. Devs can choose to check out snippets from other users they follow, or they can view everyone’s activity or the most popular posts. You can post your own code, comment on others’ code and “like” activity you see around the site.
The site also features Twitter and Facebook integration for the more social developers out there.
Users are allowed to post 20 snippets each month, and while the site is invite-only, each user receives five invitations to send at will.
We showed you a similar idea, Forrst, a couple months ago. This prettily laid-out site featured sharing and Q&A tools for both developers and designers. And a while before that, we showed you Dribbble, a microformat site specifically for designers only.
While not as visually flashy as the sites mentioned above, Codesnippit does have a few all-important features that make it stand out. For one thing, you can actually categorize the kind of code you’re posting, from ASP to Zend. This is an all-important feature for any site that asks users to post and search for code, and it’s something that otherwise awesome tools (such as UseTheSource, for example) are missing.
Codesnippit is brought to you by front-end web app developer Amber Weinberg and her fiancé Nikita Makeyev. The duo also recently brought on a third developer, Isaac Van Name.
The site is still very much in beta and a bit buggy here and there, but we like the concept and the UI so far. We recommend reaching out to the Codesnipp.it team for an invite so you can check it out for yourself.
What do you think of this new crop of micro-format, sharing/Q&A sites for web developers? Do you know of any others that aren’t yet on our radar? Let us know in the comments!
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