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SHOW HN2018

157points
50comments
#253of 2,155 in 2018
Top 12%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

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

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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 HN
    • Would 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • Thanks, my gh profile has become utterly useless due to overload.
      TomK32 on HN
    • OP 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 HN
    • You'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

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