DevIndex – Ranking 50k GitHub developers using a static JSON file
Client-side ranking of 50k developers with zero backend—clever constraint engineering.

Tastemaker metric identifies trendsetters before projects go mainstream, rewarding early adoption.
Engineering managers, recruiters, open-source enthusiasts
GitHut · StackOverflow Trends · GitHub Stars
What we built: CodeRank score - a composite reputation signal across contributions, repository impact, and community influence Tastemaker score - did you star repos at 50 stars that now have 50,000? We track that Comparison Builder - allows users to build comparison graphics to compare devs, repos, orgs, etc. Sharable Profile Graphics - share your scores and flex on your coworkers or the community at large
Some things we found interesting: Most-followed ≠ most influential. The correlation between follower count and tastemaker score is surprisingly weak. There's a whole tier of developers who consistently find projects weeks and months before they trend, with almost no public following.
Location data on GitHub is a disaster. We spent an embarrassing amount of time on normalization and it's still not anywhere near perfect.
Try it: https://coderank.me/
If your profile doesn't have a score, signing in will trigger scoring for your account.
Curious what the HN crowd thinks about the ranking methodology, happy to get into the weeds on any of it.
Client-side ranking of 50k developers with zero backend—clever constraint engineering.
GitHub commit leaderboard; removes novelty once the initial curiosity wears off.
GitHub search with README scoring, but Sourcegraph already does this better.
Gamifies commit counts, but GitHub's own contribution graph already solves this.
GitHub profile to portfolio in one URL swap; link-header trick accurately counts all contributors.
Operationalizing biomedical knowledge for drug discovery is a genuinely useful angle.