Git-Finder
A GitHub-powered developer community platform for profile discovery, repository exploration, and activity insights.
https://gitfinder.bamacharan.com/
Problem
GitHub profiles contain useful signals, but they are scattered across repositories, activity, contribution graphs, and user pages. The project needed to make developer discovery more social and easier to explore.
What I Built
GitFinder is a developer-community platform built around GitHub authentication. Users can sign in with GitHub, post updates, explore other developer profiles, inspect repositories, and follow activity signals.
The product combines profile discovery with social interactions such as posts, likes, comments, and following developers.
Technical Decisions
The app uses React for the interface, Firebase for authentication and backend services, and GitHub APIs for profile and repository data. OAuth keeps login familiar for developers and avoids creating a separate identity system.
Because the project was open to contributors, I also worked on contribution guidelines, issue flow, and pull-request review practices.
Outcome
GitFinder became an open-source collaboration project accepted into GSSoC Extended and Hacktoberfest. I helped manage 20+ contributors and 40+ pull requests while building the core GitHub-powered experience.