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Show HN: 7 years of code, nothing to show on GitHub – so I built this
2 points by pallavjha26 7 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments
I've spent the last 7 years doing a mix of open source, a full-time job, and freelance work. My public GitHub profile looks almost empty.

  All my real work is in private repos under company accounts, client                                                                          
  organizations, or separate work emails. I had no way to show that output                                                                     
  to anyone without violating NDAs or sharing proprietary code.                                                                                
                                                                                                                                               
  So I built Unified Contribution Portal (UCP).                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                               
  You connect your GitHub accounts via personal access tokens (read-only,                                                                      
  contribution metadata only). UCP fetches dates and counts — no repo names,
  no commit messages, no code — and merges everything into a single 52-week                                                                    
  heatmap.                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                               
  The token is used once and discarded. Nothing is stored.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                             
  Live: https://unifiedcontributions.vercel.app/                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                             
  It's free. I launched on Product Hunt today and have zero users. I'm                                                                         
  trying to figure out if this is a real problem other developers have or                                                                    
  just a problem I had.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                             
  Honest questions for HN:                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                             
  1. Do you have the same problem — work that's invisible on your public profile?                                                              
  2. Would you use this? What's missing?                                                                                                     
  3. Is there something obviously broken with the approach?                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                             
  Happy to answer anything about how it works technically
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GitHub allows you to show private contributions in its activity graph: https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/contr...

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That's good, but I've never worked at a company that uses GitHub for source control.

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i had the same problem and built something similar but with a different approach. greens (https://github.com/yuvrajangadsingh/greens) is a CLI that runs locally on your machine. it mirrors commit activity from your private/work repos to a personal repo via a cron job. no tokens shared with any third party, no web app, no account.

the tradeoff vs your approach is it only works going forward (can't backfill years of history), but nothing ever leaves your machine.

to answer your honest question #1: yes, this is a real problem. i posted about it on linkedin and the response was way bigger than i expected. lots of devs working at companies where all their output is invisible on their public profile.

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A finished product making money is better than a contribution graph that can be so easily faked that lots of GitHub users just do it for the fun of it.

In 2026, contribution graphs offer a very little representation of the current skills of a developer.

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How does this site's home page not have a "what this looks like" anywhere?

Seven years... Where's yours?

// If there is an example and I can't find it, might as well not be there.

// If you won't show yours, why would I show mine?

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3. How does anyone else know it hasn't been faked?

(e.g. someone could have written a cron-job or script to resubmit other people's work)

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