Show HN: Open-source certificate from GitHub activity

43 pointsposted 20 days ago
by brendonmatos

16 Comments

LandenLove

16 days ago

Fun idea! Seems like a pretty complex tech stack.

My only recommendation is to add better input filtering on the front end. For example, I initially copy and pasted the whole URL and it gave a 400 error. e.g. https://github.com/QCgeneral29/

Then I realized it was only the username, so I deleted the url part, but forgot to remove the / at the end e.g.

QCgeneral29/

Another 400 error. Finally, I entered QCgeneral29 and it worked.

brendonmatos

15 days ago

Good idea!! I'll implement a better input handling for it I'll accept the entire github url, and i'll also trim the input Thank you for the heads-up!

varun_ch

16 days ago

It’s pretty easy to forge git commit dates and push them to a private repo. Does this account for that?

brendonmatos

15 days ago

For some badges, it is indeed easy to cheat. However, for badges like merging a PR into a repository with 10k or 100k stars, it's much harder to spoof

Edit: same for badges related to creating a repo that reaches x amount of stars and helpful comments on issues

chuongpqvn117

15 days ago

Very nice idea. I like it ! Have one issues with print is that can't show the color board

lolalele

20 days ago

Very cool! Any plans to add more badges specific to big open-source projects like React, Linux, or Git?

brendonmatos

20 days ago

Great idea. totally doable for sure

user

16 days ago

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holg

20 days ago

Nice idea, how about even more badges? Might be some challenge for the clean looking Certificate...

brendonmatos

20 days ago

yea, it really is a challenge! currently, I have a sorting working to fetch the most relevant badges. I only show the top 3 to keep the certificate clean

user

20 days ago

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raphaeljlps

19 days ago

Nice, how much is costing to run?

brendonmatos

15 days ago

Nothing! everything is running under a cloudflare free tier

gus_massa

19 days ago

Feature request: GitLab support.