Hey Product Hunt 👋 CodeTimeline started because I was frustrated that GitHub's commit log tells you *what* changed but never *why it mattered*. Every project has a real narrative arc — the scrappy early sprint, the moment the community showed up, the quarter everything broke — but none of that is visible. So I built a tool that surfaces it. The technically interesting part is the chapter naming. I feed the LLM commit message clusters alongside contributor context (who joined, who went quiet, PR merge rate) rather than just raw messages. That's what makes "feat(AUTH-2341): add oauth" turn into "The Authentication Overhaul" rather than something generic. Stack: Next.js 15 · GSAP ScrollTrigger · D3.js · NVIDIA NIM · GitHub REST API · Vercel A few timelines worth trying: → facebook/react — watch the community inflection point → expressjs/express — a textbook "peak and plateau" arc → vercel/next.js — growth goes vertical after 2020 Source is fully open: github.com/Rohan5commit/codetimeline I'd love to know what your repo's timeline looks like — drop it in the comments. Happy to answer any questions about how it works.

CodeTimeline

Turn any GitHub repo into its visual development story

Turn any GitHub repo into its visual development story