githits.com• Dec 1, 2025• 1 min read
Show HN: GitHits – Code example engine for AI agents and devs (Private Beta)It has been almost 10 years since I started the opencv-python packaging project. Scaling it to more than 100 million downloads as a side project showed me how much ease of installation and proper package distribution matter to users. It gave the computer vision ecosystem a noticeable boost. Now I have a new idea that I hope can help even more people across the broader software engineering world.A while ago, I realized I kept giving the same advice to teammates and friends when they ran into a programming issue they couldn't easily solve: go to GitHub and look at how others solved it.There is a huge pool of underused example material across open source. Most problems developers face are not that novel. With enough digging, someone has already solved the same issue in code or at least posted a workaround to an issue or discussion thread.The trouble is that GitHub search is limited and works only when you already know the right keywords. You also need the time and patience to go through a
