Ghuser.io
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github profile tool
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Performance: 1 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
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What HN said
What people liked
Profiles are useful and the idea is appealing
From 3 comments
Pretty bummed I missed a chance to try this! I had manually gone through my merged PRs list before to try and assemble a count of my contributions to each public project to come…
ocdtrekkie on HNWould it be practical to use puppeteer / headless chrome from within a Google Cloud Function to do this? Then you could do literally millions of profiles per hour. The only…
sam0x17 on HNI love these profiles. At GitLab we're very open to contributions to enhance user profiles. One of the hard things might be the performance of these pages, for that you probably…
sytse on HN
Objections
Service is overloaded and profile requests are slow or stuck
From 3 comments
Hi OP, seems nice but "Get my profile" seems to attempt to load but never gets done. Github username: franciscop. Slashdot effect? My profile is weird? Been coding for ~8 years…
franciscop on HNThanks, my gh profile has become utterly useless due to overload.
TomK32 on HNOP again, we're way overloaded. We got 200 profile requests already in an hour and we didn't see it coming. We're extremely thankful and sorry to disappoint you at the same time.…
lourot on HN
Relies on unofficial GitHub API and crawling, which is rate limited
From 2 comments
GitHub's API does't provide the exhaustive list of all your contributions. Instead we crawl GitHub's website which is slow. Details at…
brillout on HNYou're right. I edited my answer. The GitHub's unofficial API we are using is slow and per IP rate limited. We spin up several servers to have several IPs to circumvent the rate…
brillout on HN
Requests
Support GitLab, Bitbucket and plain git repos
From 1 comment
Could you make this work for gitlab, bitbucket and maybe even just regular old git repos as well? It would also be really cool if we could pull out basic private repo info as…
fabricexpert on HN
Include private repo info with permission
From 1 comment
Could you make this work for gitlab, bitbucket and maybe even just regular old git repos as well? It would also be really cool if we could pull out basic private repo info as…
fabricexpert on HN
Allow running locally on your own profile
From 1 comment
Can we clone the repo and run it locally on my own profile? I arrived late..
ishanjain28 on HN
Questions
Why build this if not working at GitHub?
From 1 comment
Could you make this work for gitlab, bitbucket and maybe even just regular old git repos as well? It would also be really cool if we could pull out basic private repo info as…
fabricexpert on HN
Is my onboarding request queued?
From 1 comment
Given you disabled onboarding, is my onboarding request queued somewhere or will I have to comeback and re-request once you got over the hump?
ohnoesjmr on HN
Alternatives named
sourcerer.io
From 1 comment
Check out https://sourcerer.io - GitHub and GitLab profiles with extensive timeline, language, library, repo analysis. Customizable.
sergey4096 on HN