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Everyone knows that's it's necessary to check a project's social media pages and whitepaper while analysing ICO projects, but first of all we are investing in the technology, not in the marketing. So the main thing to take a look at should be GitHub of the project, and looking at it we can get the overall picture about how the team is working and whether the funds that are being raised are really spent on the development of the project.
Do you agree with this? How important is GitHub for you in ICO analysis?

Github as an important part to determine how good that ico is.Remem we should make sure the contract has already verified all of the codes have written properly by the developer.
It's really important for me because it give a clue about what will be happened and make sure the developer is not putting the back door.

Actually, yes I always try to do. I don't understand the language of Github but it is very necessary for a project to have Github. Before investing in any ICO, usually, I look into their social media platforms, Telegram chat group's activity, Github Source code, Unique Contract address, KYC Approve by Icobench and some other things.

Great to hear that, as there is another mega thread in this board about whether people actually read whitepapers, and to my surprise many confess that they hardly ever do it, explaining that they can get the idea of the project just by looking at the website. But for me whitepaper is also a way to determine how seriously the team is working on their project, whether they have made a solid research and already have all the technical solutions in details, not only the idea of their product. The same with GitHub. 

Now I think I need to check the most successful ICOs of 2018 and then look at their GitHubs to find out whether there is some real correlation between developers' productivity and amounts of money raised.

Github is actaully is a proof if there is something going on with the projects and sometimes such projects show more that the community is involved and they are sharing commits if there is a bug/problems in the code

I will go frank with this one, I never check the GitHub because I dont know much about the technical stuff. If I have to understand the idea behind the project then I will just go and read the whitepaper in details which is actually meant for the general investors. Thats gives me more profound idea as I will never understand whats going on within the GitHub page. Also, I never thought about going over there and check whether I can understand that one or not. For now its all about the fundamentals and as simple as I can keep it for myself.

It's definitely a good thing to check, no reason not to.
GitHub code as well as alpha products are all good signs, while not having either is a red flag in my eyes.
There's too many projects that only has a whitepaper to show, and yet hope to raise millions of dollars.
wouldn't a serious project try to make sure they can attract as many people as possible, by ensuring that they have something to show?

Checking Github repository is not the only way while analyzing the ICO. Not everyone is technically sound enough to understand the github of the project.
For me, ICOs are mostly important from Fundamentals point of view and hence I prefer doing FA foremost investing in any ICO.

Yes, it is definitely necessary to invest in ico. Github is a very important part of ico. To look at the code source, pay more attention to some related content and activities.

GitHub is an important part when investing in ICOs but you also can not ignore marketing aspects. I guess after looking at marketing/ rating and authenticity of ICO we can go to check GitHub.

If the project is open source, github makes a difference where you can meet up volunteers and developers and discuss about the product.
But that is not the case for most of the ICO tokens. What would you check for?

That's a good idea. I have not thought of that yet.
I think that's what i would do in the future. Thanks for the tip.

There are numerous criteria evaluating an ICO project.  Certainly one of them is assessing the team's ability to deliver the technology.

If you have a strong technical background, reviewing technical assets such as specifications, code, and test cases are important milestones you can verify.

Many, perhaps most, ICO investors don't have such a background.

What probably is a better criteria is the background and track record of the team.  This will show whether they have a consistent record of delivering significant software projects.  Any ICO investor can assess this.

First of all most of projects have not any github section due that they have not anything to upload. They just have simple ERC token and nothing more. Some of this ICOs was successful.

If i were able to read the source code, checking a team's GitHub could be of more use:)) if there is a blankpage - i will stay away for sure, but if there is some code i cannot judge on whether it works or it was copy-pasted from anywhere.

Certainly GitHub is very important from a technical point of view. But since I'm not very good at this, I try to look at other aspects of the project. I think that the team and a well-written whitepaper play an equally important role.

No i don't check github because i don't understand anything about programing so even if i check the github i only look at the activity and nothing else. I also saw that some project don't want to show their github because they are not an open project and afraid the competitor will steal their idea or something else. Also most ico github is still empty because they haven't start the development.

Honestly I don't really check github in most of the ICO's I participated. I just check the whitepaper for I think that's the major thing that will give you information on how the project will be doing? What is the goal, who are in the team and what will be the project road map or plan. Github helps in other way but not all people know and understand the code.

Github is an important part of an ICO project. It allows you to understand the progress of project development, and plans for the future. Inspection is indispensable. Serious reference is to reduce the risk of investing yourself and blind investment is not recommended. There is no good result.

I usually read through their community, if this community is good or not. Also, I usually read the bounty hunters, if they wanted to sell or not after hit an exchange.

GitHub is a technical site. I have not known GitHub to be a good check site for ICO. Now that I know, I will study that site to understand how it works. This is good information.

I want to say that I really want to see their source code, but I'm not a technical person, I don't know where to look for source code, and even if I know it, I can't read it, even if I understand what this means? ? Is the project good?

Although I do not understand the Github language, but nevertheless I consider this to be important, so I always check the availability of Github!

I check ICOs at www.icoguide.com before making decisions, and I can suggest to look at this platform as the rates are very real.

Yes, it is quite important but it's not the main part of my analysis. White paper, hard/soft cap, team, and advisors are more important imo.

Github is a collaboration tool used mostly by programmers, but other types of people use it too. Github allows people to share files, change files in a group setting, manage changes to files so that they don’t affect other files, and keep track of changes to files over time. Github also provides a web-based interface that makes it easy to browse files and other parts of a project. The beauty of Github is that anyone can access it – you don’t even have to sign up.😎

Github is a GREAT PLACE for researching ICOs because all information is available to the public, so you’ll always have access to the latest about an ICO.👍👍👍

Honestly, I'm not a technical person either, but I find it very important to take a look at how the project spends money that it raises. And this thought I have got from one of the cryptobloggers on Youtube, IvanOnTech, I think he's pretty popular whithin the community. So he has several videos about how exactly to check project's GitHub and what to look at if you are not good at codes and all of this technical stuff. Here is the video with all these basic things: https://youtu.be/g9QBn1V-8ZA

No, I usually do not check them because I do not understand the code, I often use ICO ratings and Google search information to determine whether an ICO is reliable.

I also used to do the same, but from my experience ICO raitings are not something reliable and I wouldn't use them to decide where to invest my money actually, I'm not a lot into all of these concpiracy theories about all raitings being paid where each point of raiting costs some certain amount of dollars, but personally I've seen pretty enough projects with good raitings even from ICObench which turned out to be scam.