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Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub user has been up to

https://githubdetective.vercel.app

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Lazy Sundays are for fun vibe coding, and this particular weekend, I decided to play around with the GitHub API. Ended up building this little app: GitHub Detective.

It fetches the latest activity of a user, but in a nice way—you can filter by categories like PRs, issues, comments, etc., and easily navigate to them.

You can also generate a sarcastic analysis of the user based on their activity, then download and share it with friends. :)

( 8 comments | 4 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by koech1 on Monday April 14, 2025 @06:18AM (#43679770)
aah loved this
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by bilater on Monday April 14, 2025 @07:49PM (#43687529)
glad you liked it!
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by rurban on Monday April 14, 2025 @04:11PM (#43685789)
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by bilater on Monday April 14, 2025 @07:49PM (#43687528)
haha
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by Twixes on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @03:50PM (#43697563)
Sneaky and smooth! Reminds me so much of my side project from a couple years back: https://hubmeter.io/ – basically GitHub Detective that charts the events instead of showing them directly!
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by bilater on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:20PM (#43719753)
nice! looks cool.
Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by masutaka on Tuesday April 15, 2025 @11:15PM (#43701069)
This is an interesting app.

Are you using the Events API? https://docs.github.com/rest/activity/events?apiVersion=2022...

I felt a sense of familiarity because I’ve also built a tool using the Events API: https://github.com/masutaka/github-nippou

If your GitHub repository is public, I’d love to check it out—I’ll give it a star!

Re:Show HN: GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub use... by bilater on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:20PM (#43719755)
yes