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

16 bilater 8 4/14/2025, 4:33:25 AM 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. :)

Comments (8)

masutaka · 14d ago
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!

bilater · 13d ago
yes
rurban · 15d ago
bilater · 15d ago
haha
Twixes · 14d ago
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!
bilater · 13d ago
nice! looks cool.
koech1 · 16d ago
aah loved this
bilater · 15d ago
glad you liked it!