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Calculate your GitHub hacker score

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36 pointslzimm18 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.

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).

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

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.

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

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

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

How is this score calculated?

The score's based on your use of GitHub, who follows you and your projects, as well as (this is where BackType comes in) how much they are shared on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Hacker News, etc.

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

Since we're using BackType as well to calculate the score, it was easier to do both requests server-side. We pre-ran a long list of popular users and all of their followers, but guess we didn't reach enough people :(

If you leave the tab open, it will finish.

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?

Here's an example (or you can click usernames on the frontpage): http://cl.ly/232U2o2t0C2y3V0J0r10

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

Fixed.

Yep... it works now. Thanks.

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

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

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Beat that!

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