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The Git Observatory
GitHub charted as a night sky. Every star is a real star
The Observatory turns GitHub into an astronomical instrument. Tonight's fastest-rising repos become the brightest stars. Repos that suddenly explode get real supernova designations (SN 2026-07-14A) with Δ-magnitudes calculated the way astronomers do it. Point the telescope at any month back to 2008, get a stellar classification for any repo (Protostar → Hypergiant), or see your own GitHub account drawn as a constellation. 100% client-side, $0 to run, no signup, no tracking.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋 The Observatory started as an experiment — "what if GitHub trending looked like the night sky?" — and turned into a full astronomical instrument.
My favourite part is what it doesn't have: no backend, no database, no AI APIs, no tracking, and no signup. It costs $0 to run — everything happens in your browser against GitHub's free API. Even the natural-language search is a hand-written parser.
Things to try first:
⭐ Type your GitHub username into "Your Sky" — your repos, drawn as a constellation
💥 Check Supernova Watch — repos detonating 10×+ above their lifetime average, with real astronomical designations
🔭 Point the Telescope at the month you started coding
For the engineers asking "wait, how?" — Field Notes documents every trick: gitobservatory.com?notes=open
I'd love to hear what constellation you find!
Love the supernova naming and the constellation view is genuinely charming. One idea: add a way to filter by language or topic in the telescope view, so you can see which Python repos or AI tools had the biggest brightness spikes in a given month without scrolling through everything.
Genuinely fun way to browse GitHub history. Pointed the telescope at July 2023 and watched some random ML repo get classified as a hypergiant right before it blew up. The constellation map of my own account was the cherry on top.
love how it classifies my old college repos as "protostars" and my neglected ones as "white dwarfs". the supernova naming for sudden spikes is such a nerdy detail, exactly my kind of thing.
About The Git Observatory on Product Hunt
“GitHub charted as a night sky. Every star is a real star”
The Git Observatory was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #91 on the daily leaderboard. The Observatory turns GitHub into an astronomical instrument. Tonight's fastest-rising repos become the brightest stars. Repos that suddenly explode get real supernova designations (SN 2026-07-14A) with Δ-magnitudes calculated the way astronomers do it. Point the telescope at any month back to 2008, get a stellar classification for any repo (Protostar → Hypergiant), or see your own GitHub account drawn as a constellation. 100% client-side, $0 to run, no signup, no tracking.
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The Git Observatory was hunted by Rakesh Kusuma. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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