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 technicallyComments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701922
Points: 2
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