I created a Search Engine for Open Source Unity3D Projects

I kind of got tired looking for open source unity projects on github's limited search engine, so I made this nifty tool :




Here's the website :
UnityList.com

I'm still working on few things but the project as a whole is usable enough to be released.

Tell me what you think of it
Oh, and if you have any questions, suggestions or anything, I'm all ears.

 

I think it's friggin amazing! Thanks a lot, I'm sure this provides great value to the community.

If we can make feature requests I'd like to be able to filter by licenses (so e.g. only display MIT and CC0.

And I'd like to see how many pages of search results total are found in a category. Maybe make the list at the bottom something like this: previous 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, ... 42 next.

 

Thanks, I'm still figuring out how to extend the search filters in a nice usable way for license search, so that's in my todo list alright ( maybe a omnibox search would do, but then again I fear for mobile users getting a crappy experience )

As for the pages, is it really that useful to know the total amount of pages? I'm not the kind of guy who pays much attention to that but if you can give me a good reason then I'll implement it

 

When I'm browsing search results somewhere, I like to know how many results total there are, so that I can decide at the start if it's gonna be feasible to go through all of them or not. I'd hate to have a search with 452 pages of results and wondering after half an hour when/if I'll hit the end soon.
This forum does it too with thread pages. I think it is a good way to handle anything that has multiple pages. I'd have trouble thinking of a reason against it (other than that implementing anything always costs dev time).

 

I would like to see the github authors names shown quite prominently with the results.

 

Preserving the formatting in the README or similar files would make them easier to read (I use bold headings for a reason!). That is mainly a cosmetic issue, however.

 

This is very nice!

 

Excellent, bookmarked your site.

 

Whoa this is really cool man. I didn't even know one could do this.

 

Nice idea.

Out of curiosity, where did you source the data from? There are plenty of projects I've seen around the forums that are not in your list.

 

Very cool, good job!

 

Just updated the site with a more stable navigation ( using filters and navigating was awful previously )
Still working on license stuff atm.

Alrighty, that'll be integrated in the next update.

I noticed that in few repos but I keep loosing sight of them, if you can link me up some -- that would help me a lot.

The fancy land of github, not exactly the best experience for finding new projects though. Which is why UnityList exists

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Thanks for all comments, glad it's useful for more than just me !

 

Thanks a lot! This has immediately helped me find a lot of solution to something I've been stuck at for long!

 

wow this is awesome! As others suggested would be good if you could sort by license

 

I've just improved the formatting so that it fits github's style, some repo's who use custom markdown tags are still broken but at least it looks way more easy on the eyes

Is it ok to group the licenses in this way ?
- Commercial : MIT, Apache-2, Unilicense
- Non-commerical : xxxxxxx
- Rest : xxxxx

or do you really need a detailed filtering?

 

Voila, both of them are now added and live.

 

Awesome! This truly is amazing!

 

This is great! Thanks for sharing!

 

Nicely done!

 

Thanks guys

I've recently added bunch of new features, including searching by author and project evolution.

 

Another update if anyone cares.
I've added "similar projects" for an easier browsing experience

 

Nice. Thanks for doing this.

 

Very nice but I agree with below:

 

Just posted another update.

As for the "authors names" request, the design choice for the current gallery/browse page was made so that you could easily find the right project for your needs. I really don't see a use of adding author's name in there.

So far, these are the disadvantages I can list for that request:

• There will be an additional text that'll make reading experience worse.
• The author's name doesn't bring any helpful info for repository exploring.
• Author's name will favor the choice of repositories made by known git users ( such as google ) , leaving less exposure for other users.

( Note that author names are always shown once you click on a repository. )

Anyhow, if someone can give me a good reason to mention author names in the browse section, please tell so.
Until then, it'll remain author-name-free

 

Thank you so much for this! I have used it before and it so easy to use and a great resource to find open source Unity assets.

 

Can it do code search through all repositories?

 

Seems the useful page at https://unitylist.com/latest doesn't exist anymore.. shame really.

 

Too bad the website is not working anymore !