Neil J Patel

Repobeats - Give your GitHub README.md some insightful eye-candy

Repobeats is a way to embed contributor analytics into your GitHub project's README.md.

With Repobeats, contributors and users of your projects get a clear, beautiful, view of how your project is evolving over time.

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Neil J Patel
Hi! We're really excited to launch Repobeats, our latest Axiom Labs project! It's a free service that allows developers to embed insightful statistics about their GitHub repos right inside their README.md. Set-up takes less than a few minutes and both contributors and users benefit from the beautifully presented information. We made this service because we found it hard to get an overview of projects easily through GitHub's existing metrics. As developers of projects, wanted to know how contributions are changing over time as well as show off the top contributors. And as users, we would love to quickly get an overview of the velocity of a project and potentially where contributions would be most valued. Let us know what you think!
Marco Trevisan
Hey @njpatel! It's Really nice! It would be also great if it could support your "own repo" like 3v1n0/3v1n0 in my case so that it generates stats for what you did on github (as it does https://github.com/anuraghazra/g..., but I know you can do better :)) Given that currently it just creates empty stats: https://repobeats.axiom.co/api/e...
Neil J Patel
Hey @3v1n0! Sssshhh, that feature is meant to be secret :D! It's coming soon, a specialised version for personal README.mds - it's really cool and shows a bunch of stats from across your contributions in a really nice way!
Marco Trevisan
@njpatel Ahah, great to hear! Sorry for sharing internal secrets... :-D
☁ Itamar Haber
Well done! I've spent countless hours eye-balling GitHub repos, scraping their data, and building ingestion/analysis/visualization pipelines to do what this does, but far less elegantly and considerably more brittle :) I mean, what could be easier than adding an SVG to a README? What I'd really want is the ability to run my own queries and customize the stats that are displayed, but I saw on your webpage that this is already in motion so all I have to is wait for the next updates. Best of luck, this is really great.
Neil J Patel
Hi @itamarhaber! Thank you for the kind words and definitely hear you regarding being able to run your own queries to build more custom views - it's absolutely something we're looking into. In the mean time, anyone is welcome to play with the raw data in the Axiom Play sandbox: https://play.axiom.co. You can also check out some of the dashboards we've built with the data here https://play.axiom.co/axiom-play....