Are You Going Exponential

At a glance

Are You Going Exponential charts a GitHub username’s contribution history as a shareable visual. It is worth a quick look as a playful activity snapshot. The shape of that line does not measure the quality of someone’s work, prove exponential growth or explain why their visible activity changed.

Good fit

Developers curious about their public contribution pattern and people who enjoy a small social chart. The inspected example showed a long timeline and a contributions total, with link/image sharing controls. The visual makes a sudden change easy to notice; interpreting that change requires context the chart does not supply.

Consider something else when

You are assessing hiring suitability, individual productivity or a person’s complete work history. GitHub counts particular qualifying activities, and private-contribution visibility depends on profile settings. A sparse chart is not proof that somebody is inactive, and a dense one is not proof of valuable output.

Start here

Open an existing example, inspect its time axis and compare it with the person’s GitHub contribution history. To generate your own, the homepage asks for a valid GitHub username and Go. We inspected an existing example and the homepage; no new username lookup, social post or image export was submitted.

Cost and requirements

The public example and home page opened without payment or sign-in. A recent-generations list is visible, so do not assume a submitted username is a private lookup. No GitHub authorization or private repository access was requested during this inspection.

Limits to know

The share link included a growth percentage that was not independently recalculated. Source research establishes GitHub’s contribution-counting limits, not how this app retrieves, caches or aggregates every year. Use it for curiosity rather than a decision about another person’s ability.

Still unclear

• How does the app handle missing/private contribution data, caching and the growth percentage used in share text?