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Dev tools · January 15, 2017

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Viz – Visualize GitHub's Most Popular Repos of 2016

Viz – Visualize GitHub's Most Popular Repos of 2016 launched on January 15, 2017 with 10 votes, #1,644 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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Viz is a development tool that visualizes GitHub's most popular repositories from 2016. Created for developers interested in trending projects, it provides a visual way to explore which repositories gained traction that year. The tool helps users discover influential open-source projects and understand what the development community was focused on during that period.

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