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24 alternatives to The Most Influential Developers on GitHub

For Github Data Challenge 2014. Contribute to floydwch/the-most-influential-developers-on-github development by creating an account on GitHub.

This is a GitHub repository created for the 2014 GitHub Data Challenge that analyzes and identifies the most influential developers on GitHub. It is designed for developers and data enthusiasts interested in GitHub… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Most Influential Developers on GitHub launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    GitHired▲360

    Hey HN - today I’m launching GitHired. A hiring platform that ranks developers based on what they actually build — not what they claim on a PDF. It’s called GitHired, and here’s the core idea: GitHub > Resumes Instead of trusting “proficient in React” bullet points, we analyze a candidate’s actual GitHub: their real tech stack their most complex projects how active they are what kinds of contributions they make which skills match your job description and yes, we detect fake “green square farming.” Why we built this Because engineering hiring is broken. Resumes are inflated. Activity charts…

    Dec 2025 · githired.tech · its alternatives →

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    I've always wanted a better way to explore the authorship data embedded in a Git commit log. I'm having fun building a CLI tool to do this. It's a bit like the "Contributors" tab on Github that shows you how many commits each contributor has made but much faster and with many more options. If you get a chance to try it out, please let me know. I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions. Thank you!

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Several months ago, I built a "stealth" feature that I could use. It hasn't been advertised, and I've been the only user. As I find it useful for myself, I believe others (software developers) may like it too. So, this is the first public post about it, and if it gets any positive feedback, I may put some time into promoting it more. In essence, given that you've opened a GitHub repo (there are ~225k of the more popular ones indexed as of now), you can replace "github" with "libhunt" within the URL, and you will find the top alternatives and related projects. For example, here are three…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Rank GitHub profiles of over 70 Million+ developers

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    GitRanks▲127

    Hi HN, I built GitRanks because I’ve always wanted a clear, fun way to see how my open-source work compares - both globally and right here at home. The app pulls in GitHub data to give every developer an at-a-glance “scorecard”, then rolls those into live leaderboards so you can: - Track rankings by stars, contributions and followers - Filter worldwide vs. your own country - Refresh daily - no waiting weeks to see your progress - Discover rising devs you’ve never heard of and follow their work Tech Stack: - Back: MongoDB | NestJS | BullMQ | GraphQL - Front: Next.js | Tailwind | Shadcn Data:…

    2025 · gitranks.com · its alternatives →

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    Octohunt▲106

    find developers on github

    2016 · octohunt.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub profile analysis - Build your embedding from your Stars - Compare and discover popular people with similar interests and share yours - Generate a Skill Radar - Recommend repositories you might like

    Jan 2026 · puzer.github.io · its alternatives →

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    We've indexed 5M+ GitHub users and built a ranking system that goes beyond follower counts. The idea started from frustration: GitHub is terrible for discovery. You can't answer "who are the best Python developers in Berlin?" or "who identified transformer-based models before they blew up?" without scraping everything yourself. So we did. What we built: CodeRank score - a composite reputation signal across contributions, repository impact, and community influence Tastemaker score - did you star repos at 50 stars that now have 50,000? We track that Comparison Builder - allows users to build…

    Mar 2026 · coderank.me · its alternatives →

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    View GitHub statistics and timeline by username.

    2021 · dev-flow.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    See the top contributor + % lines per author

    2025 · open-vsx.org · its alternatives →

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    GitGlance▲101

    Github lead generation for hiring & sales teams

    2025 · gitglance.co · its alternatives →

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    Compare Github repositories

    2019 · githubcompare.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub data on Google BigQuery and public datasets

    2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Tool for visualizing GitHub profiles. Contribute to tipsy/profile-summary-for-github development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Gitwork▲21

    Hire developers ranked by real GitHub output

    Jul 2026 · gitwork.dev · its alternatives →

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    A fresher "Fork me on GitHub" callout. Contribute to tholman/github-corners development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Open Source software tracking micro-interactions on websites

    2024 · os-analytics.com.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com · its alternatives →

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    I created a leaderboard showcasing the top 1000 GitHub repositories based on the number of stars. With GitHub hosting over 100 million public repositories, this leaderboard highlights the top 0.001% in terms of the number of stars. Stars might not be the perfect metric for adoption—metrics like the number of monthly downloads could be more accurate—but this list still represents some of the most popular and influential projects in the open-source community. You can check out the leaderboard here: https://githublb.vercel.app/

    2024 · githublb.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    [STILL ACTIVE] Learn the GitHub workflow by contributing code in a fun simulation project - danthareja/contribute-to-open-source

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    the most active developers on GitHub

    Aug 2026 · top-github-users-amber.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Visualize GitHub's most popular repos. http://www.donnemartin.com/viz - donnemartin/viz

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GitHub's Constellation: Top 1000 Stellar Projects

    2024 · githublb.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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