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lu969181-boop/github-skill-dashboard

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28JavaScriptAudience · pm founderComplexity · 2/5LicenseSetup · easy

TLDR

A public dashboard that translates trending GitHub projects into short explanations for non-developer audiences like marketers, legal, and finance staff.

Mindmap

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  root((github trend radar))
    What it does
      Ranks trending repos
      Explains repos by field
      Tracks star growth
      Auto deploys daily
    Tech stack
      JavaScript
      GitHub Actions
      GitHub Pages
      GitHub Search API
    Use cases
      Track open source trends
      Brief non technical teams
      Spot AI tooling early
    Audience
      Marketers
      PMs and founders
      Legal and finance staff

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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Browse trending GitHub projects explained in plain business terms instead of technical jargon.

USE CASE 2

Filter trending repos by your own professional field, such as marketing or legal.

USE CASE 3

Deploy your own automatically updating trend dashboard on GitHub Pages.

USE CASE 4

Track how many stars a project gained over the last day or month.

What is it built with?

JavaScriptGitHub ActionsGitHub PagesGitHub Search API

How does it compare?

lu969181-boop/github-skill-dashboarddb9cd2fgbj-hash/codex-deepseek-bridgedeanwhitex/aiw2.0stack
Stars282828
LanguageJavaScriptJavaScriptJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/53/53/5
Audiencepm founderdevelopervibe coder

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

First run always shows zero star growth until a second daily snapshot exists to compare against.

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright and license notice.

In plain English

GitHub Trend Radar is a website that turns the daily flood of trending GitHub projects into something readable for people who are not developers. Instead of copying the plain GitHub Trending page, it translates each open source project into a short explanation aimed at different professional audiences, such as AI practitioners, social media managers, programmers, marketers, public relations people, legal and compliance staff, finance people, designers, and operations managers. The front page shows a public ranking with no login, no favoriting, and no submission form, keeping it simple. You can switch between daily, monthly, and all time rankings, and filter by which professional field you care about. Each project entry shows its rank, repository name, a plain business style explanation in Chinese, how many stars it gained in that period, its total stars, programming language, last update time, a link to GitHub, and relevant tags. The site runs on a static data file that lists the rankings, and it comes with a script that can pull candidate repositories from the GitHub search API and rebuild that same data file. The script compares against saved daily snapshots to calculate how many stars a project gained recently, so the very first run always shows zero new stars until a second snapshot exists to compare against. Providing a GitHub access token raises the API rate limit for this step. The project also ships a ready made GitHub Actions workflow that regenerates the rankings and redeploys the site automatically every day, as well as on every push to the main branch, and it can be triggered manually too. Setting it up just means enabling GitHub Pages with GitHub Actions as the source. The project is released under the MIT license.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Help me set up this GitHub trend dashboard and run it locally with npm.
Prompt 2
Explain how the daily and monthly star growth numbers are calculated from snapshots.
Prompt 3
Walk me through enabling the GitHub Actions workflow to auto deploy this to GitHub Pages.
Prompt 4
Show me how to add a GitHub token so the ranking generator script hits fewer rate limits.

Frequently asked questions

What is github-skill-dashboard?

A public dashboard that translates trending GitHub projects into short explanations for non-developer audiences like marketers, legal, and finance staff.

What language is github-skill-dashboard written in?

Mainly JavaScript. The stack also includes JavaScript, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages.

What license does github-skill-dashboard use?

Use freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you keep the copyright and license notice.

How hard is github-skill-dashboard to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is github-skill-dashboard for?

Mainly pm founder.

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