u/CommunicationFit3210

I was tired of GitHub profiles with 0 deployed projects so I built something — here's what I learned

I've been building a hiring tool for the past few weeks and had

to crawl thousands of GitHub profiles to build the dataset.

What I found was honestly kind of sad.

About 80% of profiles look like this:

- Last commit: 2 years ago

- Repos: "todo-app", "weather-app", "netflix-clone"

- Bio: "passionate developer | open to opportunities"

- Live projects: 0

These are people actively looking for jobs. But there's

literally no proof they can build anything real.

The other 20% were completely different. They had:

- Actual deployed URLs in their READMEs

- GitHub Pages sites that worked

- Vercel/Netlify deployments linked in repo settings

- CI/CD pipelines pushing to real infrastructure

The difference between these two groups had nothing to do

with stars or followers. Some of the best builders I found

had under 50 followers.

So I built a tool that specifically surfaces that second group.

It scans repos for 4 signals of actual deployment and indexes

only developers with live, working projects.

Currently have 2000+ developers indexed across React, Python,

Golang, Rust, Vue, Next.js etc.

If you're a developer with live projects — you're probably

already in it.

If you're hiring — it's free right now during beta:

shipped-app-iota.vercel.app

Curious if others have noticed this same pattern when

looking at GitHub profiles?

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u/CommunicationFit3210 — 4 days ago