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tipsy/profile-summary-for-github

★ 19,938VueAudience · developerComplexity · 2/5MaintainedLicenseSetup · moderate

TLDR

A web tool that visualizes your GitHub activity, showing languages you use, contribution patterns, and repository stats in one visual dashboard.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Pulls GitHub user data
      Creates visual charts
      Shows language breakdown
      Displays contribution patterns
    Tech stack
      Vue frontend
      Kotlin backend
      Javalin framework
      GitHub API
    Use cases
      Portfolio showcase
      Developer profile analysis
      Activity visualization
    Audience
      Developers
      Job seekers

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Create a visual portfolio card showing your GitHub activity and top languages to share with recruiters or on your website.

USE CASE 2

Analyze your own contribution patterns to understand which languages and projects you focus on most.

USE CASE 3

Generate a shareable snapshot of any developer's public GitHub presence for team profiles or community showcases.

Tech stack

VueKotlinJavalinGitHub API

Getting it running

Difficulty · moderate Time to first run · 30min

Requires GitHub API token for authentication and data fetching.

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

In plain English

Profile Summary for GitHub is a web tool that generates a visual overview of a GitHub user's public activity and presence. You enter a GitHub username and it pulls data from the GitHub API to create charts and summaries showing things like the languages you use most, your contribution patterns, and how your activity is distributed across repositories. The result is a visual snapshot of what a developer works on and how they engage with GitHub. The project is built with Vue on the front end and Kotlin with the Javalin framework on the back end. A live demo is available at profile-summary-for-github.com. The README is sparse, but the description and topics confirm it is a GitHub API-powered visualization tool. Licensed under Apache 2.0.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
Show me how to set up this GitHub profile visualization tool locally and customize it to display my own GitHub stats.
Prompt 2
How do I modify the Vue frontend to add new charts or metrics to the GitHub profile summary display?
Prompt 3
Walk me through the GitHub API calls this tool makes to fetch user data and how the Kotlin backend processes them.
Prompt 4
How can I deploy this tool to show GitHub profiles for multiple users on my own domain?
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