Pros of Using GitHub Organizations

I consider myself an average developer. I'm not at the point where I can say I've started something that has thousands of stars on github. I can't say that hundreds of people have contributed to my projects.

But that's okay!

Since starting my github in 2010, I've come a long way. Part of that may be due to my time on github being 28% of my life. Crazy to think about... at first I had no idea what git even was. I was probably one of those people who thought git = github and vice versa. When I was 15~ I made a mobile blogging platform that had over a thousand downloads which felt like a million to me back then. It was the worst PHP code ever written, and that's saying a lot. I was so excited about my creation that all I wanted was for more and more people to use it and help me build it.

The point is...

Fast forward 6 years and here I am today. I have a github organization called Legitcode. Since starting it about two years ago, friends and random people have contributed to projects on it. I…