Calculate your GitHub hacker score (opens in new tab)

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36 pointslzimm14y ago18 comments

18 comments

How is the score computed?

WoW did backtype read our minds ? XD just after deploying our devscore I read HN and find this :)

We have released today our DevScore at masterbranch.com based on your github repositories and other forges and also with private code at github with our webhook.

How do backtype calculate the score? we look at files, commits, projects and period of activity. Our total DevScore gives smaller numbers than backtype's.

dlsspy14y ago

It won't pull my data (dustin). Perhaps too much. I've had that with other tools. I've even got my work spread across several github repos (memcached, couchbase, some others).

omakase14y ago

It's there now. Had to make some changes to distribute some of the work.

dlsspy14y ago

Thanks a lot. Now if you could just kill off everyone ahead of me, it could save me a lot of work. :)

This is a neat thing. More insight would always be good (source up or anything?) Perhaps it can help motivate me to step my game up a bit more.

click17014y ago

Seems like it's not working at the moment, perhaps overloaded.

omakase14y ago

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

click17014y ago

Seems like it's working after all just takes >5 minutes ATM.

How is this score calculated?

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ammmir14y ago

didn't load for me; you should throw up an example screenshot of what the score looks like. have you thought about making an embeddable score widget (similar to what ohloh has) that you could put on a blog?

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jackolas14y ago

This makes me curious is there any reason why the users couldn't provide the data themselves or poll the API via javascript?

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16s14y ago

It says my github username is invalid. It's the same as my HN name. Are numbers a problem?

konsl14y ago

http://github.backtype.com/profile?username=16s

omakase14y ago

Fixed.

16s14y ago

Yep... it works now. Thanks.

reddittor14y ago

http://github.backtype.com/profile?username=marak

69.2K Ranked 24 out of 1349 hackers

Beat that!

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augustl14y ago

How is the score computed?

masterbranch14y ago

WoW did backtype read our minds ? XD just after deploying our devscore I read HN and find this :)

We have released today our DevScore at masterbranch.com based on your github repositories and other forges and also with private code at github with our webhook.

How do backtype calculate the score? we look at files, commits, projects and period of activity. Our total DevScore gives smaller numbers than backtype's.

dlsspy14y ago

It won't pull my data (dustin). Perhaps too much. I've had that with other tools. I've even got my work spread across several github repos (memcached, couchbase, some others).

omakase14y ago

It's there now. Had to make some changes to distribute some of the work.

dlsspy14y ago

Thanks a lot. Now if you could just kill off everyone ahead of me, it could save me a lot of work. :)

This is a neat thing. More insight would always be good (source up or anything?) Perhaps it can help motivate me to step my game up a bit more.

click17014y ago

Seems like it's not working at the moment, perhaps overloaded.

omakase14y ago

Getting throttled a bit right now by the github API — should be better soon.

click17014y ago

Seems like it's working after all just takes >5 minutes ATM.

How is this score calculated?