The anuraghazra github-readme-stats widget is on a ton of profiles, including mine. Great project, but the public instance keeps hitting rate limits and my card has been blank on and off for weeks. The maintainers themselves recommend self-hosting now, which is fair, but "spin up Vercel + a PAT for a readme card" is more setup than I wanted.
So I built gh-stats.com. Same API, just swap the domain:
That's the whole change. If you're already using the original, your existing params should work.
What I'd love help with:
- Try it with your username and tell me if it renders correctly
- Compare it to your current card and tell me what looks off
- If you have a weird edge case (private repos, huge contribution count, non-standard username), break it and tell me how
I'm trying to be the thing you swap to when the original is down. Honest feedback welcome, including "this is worse than the original because X."