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Dev tools · April 14, 2025

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GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub user has been up to

All— 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. :)

GitHub Detective – Investigate what a GitHub user has been up to launched on April 14, 2025 with 16 votes, #1,489 of 7,818 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

In plain words

GitHub Detective is a tool that retrieves and displays a GitHub user's recent activity through the GitHub API. It allows developers to filter activity by type—such as pull requests, issues, and comments—with direct navigation to each item. The tool can generate a sarcastic analysis of a user's coding habits based on their activity history, which can be downloaded and shared with others.

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