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title: Why We Created the Site Showcase
date: 2018-06-15
author: Shannon Soper
tags: [""]
tags: ["documentation", "launch"]
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We recently finished the first phase of the [Site Showcase](https://next.gatsbyjs.org/showcase/), which is a searchable, filterable library of sites built with Gatsby!
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![Filtered Sites](filtered-sites.png)

This is all possible because Cassie (@ThatOtherPerson) and Shawn (@sw-yx) put in a huge effort to get this developed, and Flo (@fk) did an amazing job on design. Many thanks to other people who contributed, including @gillkyle, @LeKoArts, @davidluhr, @daydream05, @m-allanson, @pieh, @calcsam and more (these are all GitHub names).

## Submitting your site

If you’d like to submit a site to the showcase, please follow the [instructions in this document](https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/v2/docs/docs/site-showcase-submissions.md).

## Why build a site showcase?

We built the showcase to make it easier for you to find the src code for open source Gatsby sites and easier to show off what Gatsby can do to potential clients / coworkers.
We built the showcase to make it easier for you to find the source code for open source Gatsby sites and easier to show off what Gatsby can do to potential clients / coworkers.

### Src code
### Source code

Sometimes, examples are worth 1000 words. That's why we added a GitHub icon next to sites with open src code.
Sometimes, examples are worth 1000 words. That's why we added a GitHub icon next to sites with open source code.

![Site Showcase Src Code Available Icon](site-showcase-source-code.png)
![Site Showcase Source Code Available Icon](site-showcase-source-code.png)

### Showing off what Gatsby can do

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### Defining the MVP

We thought the following features were important to include; you'll notice that the boxes are all checked. This is all possible because Cassie (@ThatOtherPerson) and Shawn (@tsiq-swyx) put in a huge effort to get this developed, and Flo (@fk) did an amazing job on design. Many thanks to other people who contributed, including @gillkyle, @LeKoArts, @davidluhr, @daydream05, @m-allanson, @pieh, @calcsam and more (these are all GitHub names).
We thought the following features were important to include:

Users should be able to:
- [x] See screenshots of sites built with Gatsby (Landing page)
- [x] See src code (Site detail page)
- [x] See source code (Site detail page)
- [x] Share sites by copying the URL
- [x] Filter by category
- [x] Search sites
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- [ ] For non-developers, have a CTA where they can hire someone to build them a Gatsby site / ask for demo, etc. (could be on upper menu, in which case it would not belong to site showcase)
- [ ] See case studies related to sites
- [ ] See a list of the site's dependencies
- [ ] Sort by date updated for sites with open src code
- [ ] Sort by date updated for sites with open source code
- [ ] See the performance of each site in action (GIFs, performance metrics, data on traffic improvement after the site switched to Gatsby,etc.)
- [ ] See a list of all sites that use a particular plugin (this would be a change to the plugin library, probably)
- [ ] Sign up to get notifications or updates when new sites are added (or just sign up for the newsletter?)
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