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GitHub Star History Graph

176 points by bokenator 4y ago

woodruffw 4y ago
Very cool. I had no idea GitHub's API kept history statistics for stars!
- dabeeeenster 4y ago
  I don't think it does...
  - woodruffw 4y ago
    It looks like they're using the `starred_at` timestamp, which is indeed provided by GitHub's stars API[1]. Edit: the code in question[2]. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring#custom-media-types-for-starring https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring#custom-med... [2]: https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/blob/c8c66678db8015960af40ceddb3d5cc165b0fdac/common/api.ts#L81-L106 https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/blob/c8c66678db8015...
    - dabeeeenster 4y ago
      Ah my mistake! Thanks!
    - est31 4y ago
      Yeah and therefore, it's not the actual history because it only tracks the dates of when the people who have currently starred it have started starring it. It's a detail, but if someone unstars, it will be treated as if that person had never starred the project in the first place. Or in other terms, whatever graph is shown, you will never see it go down.
dabeeeenster 4y ago
I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start. Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?
- matsemann 4y ago
  Yeah, I don't want to include trackers because of privacy. But it would be nice to see which pages are accessed, and from where the visitors are coming. I don't need more than that, and that can be gathered from the access logs.
  - slimsag 4y ago
    In my opinion, analytics should be minimal, 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public - otherwise it’s spying. I use a self-hosted Plausible analytics server to implement this[0] across all my websites, so it's all public and you get to see exactly what I see[1][2]. [0] https://hexops.com/privacy/ https://hexops.com/privacy/ [1] https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com [2] https://opendata.hexops.com/machengine.org https://opendata.hexops.com/machengine.org
    - jcheng 4y ago
      I’m with you on minimal, 100% anonymous, and aggregated, but why does the data need to be open to the public to not be spying? Genuinely curious, you’ve clearly thought about this a lot.
      - slimsag 4y ago
        There are only two reasons it would need to be private: (1) you're collecting data where if it was public, people would be outraged. That's spying. (2) you believe the data is anonymous and valuable, but only you / your group should benefit from the insights it provides. You're afraid someone else is going to 'take your ideas' and execute them better than you can. Point 1 is ethically wrong, in my view. Point 2 is not ethically wrong, but IMO means what you are just trying to run a monopoly on an idea. That's fine, people do it all the time, especially companies - but I think this is wrong for the progress of humanity overall and I dislike it.
        willcipriano 4y ago
amrrs 4y ago
Tutorial on building it with Python https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo
viraptor 4y ago
Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?
- irrational 4y ago
  I use it as a bookmark. Under my own account I can find the repos I have starred.
- hk__2 4y ago
  GitHub recently added a feature where you can organize your stars in lists, so you decide what they mean. My lists include for example "useful CLI tools", "languages", and "projects to contribute to". Outside of this feature, I mostly use the stars as a 'like' button.
- akh 4y ago
  I wrote a blog about how stars helped us at the very early stages of our open source product: https://www.infracost.io/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-why/ https://www.infracost.io/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-wh...
- frou_dh 4y ago
  It's a 2-in-1 like & bookmark.
- asaddhamani 4y ago
  I think of it as a "like" or a bookmark, if I come across a repo and I find it interesting or useful, I star it.
- onionisafruit 4y ago
  It makes me feel good when I see one of my projects getting stars. When I star a project it is with the hope that another maintainer will have a similar good feeling.
Raed667 4y ago
For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.
- woodruffw 4y ago
  I'm in the same boat. But it seems like there's a broad range of different use patterns for them.
- somecommit 4y ago
  ouch... I starr-ed Vite like, 1 hour ago... but somehow I feel you are right...
- The_Colonel 4y ago
  For every professional React developer, there's probably ten people who consider React cool and something to learn in the future, while they haven't even heard about Svelte or Vite.
  - kortilla 4y ago
    Doubtful anyone thinks react is cool at this point. It’s more of a thing you just need to use for your job. It’s like Java at this point.
    - yreg 4y ago
      Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: - 69% of respondents love React, 31% dread React - 25% of developers who are not using React would like to use it (1st place among web frameworks) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021
      - naikrovek 4y ago
        that survey seems like more of a survey of the hive-mind and less of a survey of real opinions. I recall one year there were SO MANY people saying that they loved Rust (enough to make it the most loved language in the survey) but the number of people who answered that they were actually using Rust was far, far smaller. something like 10% of the number of people who claim to love it have ever used it for any purpose. I think someone could easily cherry pick results from this survey to back any opinion they have, completely independent of any actual "truth."
jerryjerryjerry 4y ago
Star can only show part of the truth, and a more comprehensive analysis may be needed to show popularity in multiple dimensions, like this website does: https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/
herpderperator 4y ago
Anyone know how they're creating such a cool chart like that?
- mgdlbp 4y ago
  The chart is generated by this,[0] which looks like a custom implementation using the same technique as this xkcd-style chart library[1] made by the same person who started this site (according to the footer). [0] https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/tree/main/packages/xy-chart https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/tree/main/packages/... [1] https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd
samwillis 4y ago
If you want see the effect of HN on a new repository: https://star-history.com/#samwillis/tetra&Date https://star-history.com/#samwillis/tetra&Date It was on the HN homepage for about 5 hours yesterday, never higher than about 25. The initial jump on the 25th was some attention on Twitter. Also the HN link was to the website, not the GitHub. I imagine if it had been a link to the repository the stars would be higher.
- deleted 4y ago
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nateb2022 4y ago
Is that a pentagram?
dtolnay 4y ago
I made a CLI version of a star history grapher for my own use, because I wasn't happy with the granularity of the graphs available in the various online incarnations of this. https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history Here is a side-by-side comparison of graphs generated by star-history.com vs my tool: https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history/issues/8 https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history/issues/8 You can distinguish a lot finer structure in my graph: coinciding with individual blog posts with not as much reach as something on Hacker News front page. That structure is almost entirely concealed in star-history.com by the cartoony graphs.
vjeux 4y ago
https://www.npmtrends.com/ https://www.npmtrends.com/ if you want the same for npm data.
swyx 4y ago
i use this thing all the time, but wish i had the option to turn off the XKCD style charts to some thing more "professional"
alcover 4y ago
I get many stars on my last project but no issues or PR. It feels quite lonely and, more importantly, I can't know if my work is going in a good direction. I think people mainly use stars as bookmark.
- necessary 4y ago
  Is there an established way that people advertise their open source projects to developers for help? I know that GitHub has exploration features but when I last used them it felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.
  - alcover 4y ago
    Not that I know of. Especially for C. I resorted to re-post to reddit when I reach a subjective milestone but the returns are slim. Also I hear people may dislike such an auto-promoting endeavour... First time I posted an early naive version of my string lib, the thread became a deluge of 500+ reactions and constructive advice. Subsequent submissions with a much better work got me depressed.
- cube2222 4y ago
  I recommend adding telemetry to your project for this (and I know a lot of people feel strongly about this, so I'll add: with a very easy way of disabling it). In OctoSQL[0] I'm literally just sending JSON files with coarse information about 1. invocations of the CLI, 2. features used in these invocations, to a VM on DigitalOcean (with a 10-line server receiving them and writing to a JSON file - which I can then process using OctoSQL itself). Thanks to this I knew that until recently most of what I had were stars, not actual usage, and could also see how the big rewrite I released in January (and the following updates) made a lot of people start actually using it since. Very nice feeling :) All telemetry logic in OctoSQL is actually contained in a single short file[1]. PS: Keep in mind that https requests take a long time, as they need to do a few roundtrips for the TLS handshake. Don't do that on every invocation if you have latency-sensitive invocations. I.e. in OctoSQL I'm only sending aggregated telemetry data every 10 invocations (as well as on the very first one). [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql https://github.com/cube2222/octosql [1]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/blob/main/telemetry/telemetry.go https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/blob/main/telemetry/tele...
Der_Einzige 4y ago
I wrote a tiny tool to calculate a "brightness" score for a repo, which looks at the total number of stars that the people who starred your repo have. The idea being that people who starred your repo who themselves have tons of stars are likely "better" in that they are likely to be experienced, intelligent users, and not bots. https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright
jackconsidine 4y ago
I use this a lot. I find it interesting to compare trajectories of similar projects. it's often hard to predict the popularity (or at least star count) of a library. Case in point, back when Bootstrap was in vogue I always found the Vue.js version of far superior to the react-strap (and react-bootstrap) in terms of API, documentation, and support. Yet bootstrap-vue never came that close to catching it's React counterparts in stars. To play devil's advocate to those who thumb their noses at GH stars, I've found this metric to be a helpful proxy in my career when choosing libraries.
loudthing 4y ago
Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.
liorgrossman 4y ago
Love the xkcd style chart! <shameless-plug> We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase: https://openbase.com/js/react/insights https://openbase.com/js/react/insights </shameless-plug>
- BonoboIO 4y ago
  https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libraries https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libra... Does not work. Only JavaScript top list work for me.
  - liorgrossman 4y ago
    Thanks for the heads up! We'll take a look.
siddontang 4y ago
we are building a similar tool https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/ which saves nearly 45B events from GitHub and can let you get more powerful insights from the project, e.g here is the history insights for K8s https://api.ossinsight.io/share/1bdadc17-6d94-41fb-8bc4-d6dc59a8baad https://api.ossinsight.io/share/1bdadc17-6d94-41fb-8bc4-d6dc..., enjoy it by yourself :-)
- ssddanbrown 4y ago
  This looks really good. I ended up quickly slapping something [1] together myself to get this kind of insight for my project. Some feedback though, I found it really hard to understand what the cost would be for "Trying my own dataset" (After the first year) and how TiBD factors in and would be used. All obvious links for TiBD go direct to a signup page which I don't want to fill without some understanding/validation of the service I'm signing up for. Removing the path of this signup page, in an attempt to go to the root URL to learn more, then takes me to an Auth0 access page. I appreciate I may not be your target market, but just giving my view of someone thinking "This looks cool, how much would it cost to have a customized version of this?" [1] https://gh-stats.bookstackapp.com/ https://gh-stats.bookstackapp.com/
byteface 4y ago
this is really cool. nice work
zX41ZdbW 4y ago
I have a project that allows not only to compare the stars, but also to find similar repositories, trends and interesting facts: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/
tianzhou 4y ago
I am the maintainer of star-history.com. Thanks for posting this on HN. Just to share a trick, you can also use markdown to embed a live star history chart to your GitHub README. e.g. ## Star History [![Star History Chart](https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history&type=Date)](https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date) https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history... Instruction: https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date Enjoy~
- codedoctor 4y ago
  It looks really cool. A hand writing style... Do you plan adding new themes?
  - tianzhou 4y ago
    We like the current style and plan to keep it as is.
- alok-g 4y ago
  Very cool. Thanks for making this. Is there a way to move or remove the legend. It's coming on the top of the curve for my project [1]. I am guessing there would be more projects with such a profile. [1] https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...
vladdoster 4y ago
Similar project that has ability to set time period to view, removes the hand drawn look, and better X/Y axis choice. https://github.com/seladb/startrack-js https://github.com/seladb/startrack-js

176 points by bokenator 4y ago

woodruffw 4y ago

Very cool. I had no idea GitHub's API kept history statistics for stars!

dabeeeenster 4y ago
I don't think it does...
- woodruffw 4y ago
  It looks like they're using the `starred_at` timestamp, which is indeed provided by GitHub's stars API[1]. Edit: the code in question[2]. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring#custom-media-types-for-starring https://docs.github.com/en/rest/activity/starring#custom-med... [2]: https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/blob/c8c66678db8015960af40ceddb3d5cc165b0fdac/common/api.ts#L81-L106 https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/blob/c8c66678db8015...
  - dabeeeenster 4y ago
    Ah my mistake! Thanks!
  - est31 4y ago
    Yeah and therefore, it's not the actual history because it only tracks the dates of when the people who have currently starred it have started starring it. It's a detail, but if someone unstars, it will be treated as if that person had never starred the project in the first place. Or in other terms, whatever graph is shown, you will never see it go down.

dabeeeenster 4y ago

I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start. Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?

matsemann 4y ago
Yeah, I don't want to include trackers because of privacy. But it would be nice to see which pages are accessed, and from where the visitors are coming. I don't need more than that, and that can be gathered from the access logs.
- slimsag 4y ago
  In my opinion, analytics should be minimal, 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public - otherwise it’s spying. I use a self-hosted Plausible analytics server to implement this[0] across all my websites, so it's all public and you get to see exactly what I see[1][2]. [0] https://hexops.com/privacy/ https://hexops.com/privacy/ [1] https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com [2] https://opendata.hexops.com/machengine.org https://opendata.hexops.com/machengine.org
  - jcheng 4y ago
    I’m with you on minimal, 100% anonymous, and aggregated, but why does the data need to be open to the public to not be spying? Genuinely curious, you’ve clearly thought about this a lot.
    - slimsag 4y ago
      There are only two reasons it would need to be private: (1) you're collecting data where if it was public, people would be outraged. That's spying. (2) you believe the data is anonymous and valuable, but only you / your group should benefit from the insights it provides. You're afraid someone else is going to 'take your ideas' and execute them better than you can. Point 1 is ethically wrong, in my view. Point 2 is not ethically wrong, but IMO means what you are just trying to run a monopoly on an idea. That's fine, people do it all the time, especially companies - but I think this is wrong for the progress of humanity overall and I dislike it.
      - willcipriano 4y ago

amrrs 4y ago

Tutorial on building it with Python https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo

viraptor 4y ago

Slightly related, but... what is it with stars? I've never starred a repo and don't understand why I would want to. Yet it seems to be a popularity contest people care about for some reason, even though it correlates strongly with forks/issues/prs so you get the same idea about usage from those. Does it go at all beyond a "like", or am I just too old to get it?

irrational 4y ago
I use it as a bookmark. Under my own account I can find the repos I have starred.
hk__2 4y ago
GitHub recently added a feature where you can organize your stars in lists, so you decide what they mean. My lists include for example "useful CLI tools", "languages", and "projects to contribute to". Outside of this feature, I mostly use the stars as a 'like' button.
akh 4y ago
I wrote a blog about how stars helped us at the very early stages of our open source product: https://www.infracost.io/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-why/ https://www.infracost.io/blog/github-stars-matter-here-is-wh...
frou_dh 4y ago
It's a 2-in-1 like & bookmark.
asaddhamani 4y ago
I think of it as a "like" or a bookmark, if I come across a repo and I find it interesting or useful, I star it.
onionisafruit 4y ago
It makes me feel good when I see one of my projects getting stars. When I star a project it is with the hope that another maintainer will have a similar good feeling.

Raed667 4y ago

For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

woodruffw 4y ago
I'm in the same boat. But it seems like there's a broad range of different use patterns for them.
somecommit 4y ago
ouch... I starr-ed Vite like, 1 hour ago... but somehow I feel you are right...
The_Colonel 4y ago
For every professional React developer, there's probably ten people who consider React cool and something to learn in the future, while they haven't even heard about Svelte or Vite.
- kortilla 4y ago
  Doubtful anyone thinks react is cool at this point. It’s more of a thing you just need to use for your job. It’s like Java at this point.
  - yreg 4y ago
    Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2021: - 69% of respondents love React, 31% dread React - 25% of developers who are not using React would like to use it (1st place among web frameworks) https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021 https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021
    - naikrovek 4y ago
      that survey seems like more of a survey of the hive-mind and less of a survey of real opinions. I recall one year there were SO MANY people saying that they loved Rust (enough to make it the most loved language in the survey) but the number of people who answered that they were actually using Rust was far, far smaller. something like 10% of the number of people who claim to love it have ever used it for any purpose. I think someone could easily cherry pick results from this survey to back any opinion they have, completely independent of any actual "truth."

jerryjerryjerry 4y ago

Star can only show part of the truth, and a more comprehensive analysis may be needed to show popularity in multiple dimensions, like this website does: https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/

herpderperator 4y ago

Anyone know how they're creating such a cool chart like that?

mgdlbp 4y ago
The chart is generated by this,[0] which looks like a custom implementation using the same technique as this xkcd-style chart library[1] made by the same person who started this site (according to the footer). [0] https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/tree/main/packages/xy-chart https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/tree/main/packages/... [1] https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd

samwillis 4y ago

If you want see the effect of HN on a new repository: https://star-history.com/#samwillis/tetra&Date https://star-history.com/#samwillis/tetra&Date It was on the HN homepage for about 5 hours yesterday, never higher than about 25. The initial jump on the 25th was some attention on Twitter. Also the HN link was to the website, not the GitHub. I imagine if it had been a link to the repository the stars would be higher.

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nateb2022 4y ago

Is that a pentagram?

dtolnay 4y ago

I made a CLI version of a star history grapher for my own use, because I wasn't happy with the granularity of the graphs available in the various online incarnations of this. https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history Here is a side-by-side comparison of graphs generated by star-history.com vs my tool: https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history/issues/8 https://github.com/dtolnay/star-history/issues/8 You can distinguish a lot finer structure in my graph: coinciding with individual blog posts with not as much reach as something on Hacker News front page. That structure is almost entirely concealed in star-history.com by the cartoony graphs.

vjeux 4y ago

https://www.npmtrends.com/ https://www.npmtrends.com/ if you want the same for npm data.

swyx 4y ago

i use this thing all the time, but wish i had the option to turn off the XKCD style charts to some thing more "professional"

alcover 4y ago

I get many stars on my last project but no issues or PR. It feels quite lonely and, more importantly, I can't know if my work is going in a good direction. I think people mainly use stars as bookmark.

necessary 4y ago
Is there an established way that people advertise their open source projects to developers for help? I know that GitHub has exploration features but when I last used them it felt like looking for a needle in a haystack.
- alcover 4y ago
  Not that I know of. Especially for C. I resorted to re-post to reddit when I reach a subjective milestone but the returns are slim. Also I hear people may dislike such an auto-promoting endeavour... First time I posted an early naive version of my string lib, the thread became a deluge of 500+ reactions and constructive advice. Subsequent submissions with a much better work got me depressed.
cube2222 4y ago
I recommend adding telemetry to your project for this (and I know a lot of people feel strongly about this, so I'll add: with a very easy way of disabling it). In OctoSQL[0] I'm literally just sending JSON files with coarse information about 1. invocations of the CLI, 2. features used in these invocations, to a VM on DigitalOcean (with a 10-line server receiving them and writing to a JSON file - which I can then process using OctoSQL itself). Thanks to this I knew that until recently most of what I had were stars, not actual usage, and could also see how the big rewrite I released in January (and the following updates) made a lot of people start actually using it since. Very nice feeling :) All telemetry logic in OctoSQL is actually contained in a single short file[1]. PS: Keep in mind that https requests take a long time, as they need to do a few roundtrips for the TLS handshake. Don't do that on every invocation if you have latency-sensitive invocations. I.e. in OctoSQL I'm only sending aggregated telemetry data every 10 invocations (as well as on the very first one). [0]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql https://github.com/cube2222/octosql [1]:https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/blob/main/telemetry/telemetry.go https://github.com/cube2222/octosql/blob/main/telemetry/tele...

Der_Einzige 4y ago

I wrote a tiny tool to calculate a "brightness" score for a repo, which looks at the total number of stars that the people who starred your repo have. The idea being that people who starred your repo who themselves have tons of stars are likely "better" in that they are likely to be experienced, intelligent users, and not bots. https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright https://github.com/Hellisotherpeople/Bright

jackconsidine 4y ago

I use this a lot. I find it interesting to compare trajectories of similar projects. it's often hard to predict the popularity (or at least star count) of a library. Case in point, back when Bootstrap was in vogue I always found the Vue.js version of far superior to the react-strap (and react-bootstrap) in terms of API, documentation, and support. Yet bootstrap-vue never came that close to catching it's React counterparts in stars. To play devil's advocate to those who thumb their noses at GH stars, I've found this metric to be a helpful proxy in my career when choosing libraries.

loudthing 4y ago

Github has always had a bad history graph. I've always wondered why we can't just have a live Github history graph like in Sourcetree.

liorgrossman 4y ago

Love the xkcd style chart! <shameless-plug> We also show the GitHub star history, alongside npm download history, issue and PR stats on Openbase: https://openbase.com/js/react/insights https://openbase.com/js/react/insights </shameless-plug>

BonoboIO 4y ago
https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libraries https://openbase.com/categories/rust/most-popular-rust-libra... Does not work. Only JavaScript top list work for me.
- liorgrossman 4y ago
  Thanks for the heads up! We'll take a look.

siddontang 4y ago

we are building a similar tool https://ossinsight.io/ https://ossinsight.io/ which saves nearly 45B events from GitHub and can let you get more powerful insights from the project, e.g here is the history insights for K8s https://api.ossinsight.io/share/1bdadc17-6d94-41fb-8bc4-d6dc59a8baad https://api.ossinsight.io/share/1bdadc17-6d94-41fb-8bc4-d6dc..., enjoy it by yourself :-)

ssddanbrown 4y ago
This looks really good. I ended up quickly slapping something [1] together myself to get this kind of insight for my project. Some feedback though, I found it really hard to understand what the cost would be for "Trying my own dataset" (After the first year) and how TiBD factors in and would be used. All obvious links for TiBD go direct to a signup page which I don't want to fill without some understanding/validation of the service I'm signing up for. Removing the path of this signup page, in an attempt to go to the root URL to learn more, then takes me to an Auth0 access page. I appreciate I may not be your target market, but just giving my view of someone thinking "This looks cool, how much would it cost to have a customized version of this?" [1] https://gh-stats.bookstackapp.com/ https://gh-stats.bookstackapp.com/

byteface 4y ago

this is really cool. nice work

zX41ZdbW 4y ago

I have a project that allows not only to compare the stars, but also to find similar repositories, trends and interesting facts: https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/ https://ghe.clickhouse.tech/

tianzhou 4y ago

I am the maintainer of star-history.com. Thanks for posting this on HN. Just to share a trick, you can also use markdown to embed a live star history chart to your GitHub README. e.g. ## Star History [![Star History Chart](https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history&type=Date)](https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date) https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=bytebase/star-history... Instruction: https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date https://star-history.com/#bytebase/star-history&Date Enjoy~

codedoctor 4y ago
It looks really cool. A hand writing style... Do you plan adding new themes?
- tianzhou 4y ago
  We like the current style and plan to keep it as is.
alok-g 4y ago
Very cool. Thanks for making this. Is there a way to move or remove the legend. It's coming on the top of the curve for my project [1]. I am guessing there would be more projects with such a profile. [1] https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-excel https://github.com/amzn/computer-vision-basics-in-microsoft-...

vladdoster 4y ago

Similar project that has ability to set time period to view, removes the hand drawn look, and better X/Y axis choice. https://github.com/seladb/startrack-js https://github.com/seladb/startrack-js