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by CameronBanga 3172 days ago
Was willing to give it a look, but the whole "Sign up and give us full access to your GitHub account" is a real downer and deal breaker.

It's a big ask, and a lot of trust for some Show HN. I'd like to be able to get info on pricing, poke around, and test stuff, before I give away the keys to the castle.

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Hi Cameron, thank you for your feedback.

Octotrack is not requesting full access to Github, only to the public information and inherently public repos. But nothing concerning private information, that was one of the main objectives.

It would be great if you could try it out. Thank you :)

write access to public repos. That's not inherently public.
You're absolutely right. I've just removed all access to public repositories, including reading.

Now the only information shared is the user's public information.

Thank you

You also get write access to private profile information:

"This application will be able to read and write all user data. This includes the following:

Private email addresses Private profile information Followers"

Changed it again to only read access to user email. Thank you for reporting that issue.
Do you have an issue tracker where we could add thoughts/comments? Any idea on pricing?
Hi Cameron, that's a great suggestion. I've just created a public issue tracking repository on github - https://github.com/Octotrack/issue-tracker. It would be great to get all your feedback.

Regarding pricing, this is a new public page with the pricing since it was only available after you logged in - https://www.octotrack.com/pricing.

Thank you