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CodeTimeline
Turn any GitHub repo into its visual development story
Paste any public GitHub URL → get a scrollable visual history of the entire project. The GitHub API pulls commit history, contributor joins, and language shifts. An LLM groups this into named narrative chapters — "The Foundation", "The Great Refactor" — so the repo's story reads like a story, not a log. Contributor avatars, language charts, commit sparklines. Shareable OG card included. Open source. MIT licensed.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
CodeTimeline started because I was frustrated that GitHub's commit log
tells you *what* changed but never *why it mattered*. Every project has
a real narrative arc — the scrappy early sprint, the moment the community
showed up, the quarter everything broke — but none of that is visible.
So I built a tool that surfaces it.
The technically interesting part is the chapter naming. I feed the LLM
commit message clusters alongside contributor context (who joined, who
went quiet, PR merge rate) rather than just raw messages. That's what
makes "feat(AUTH-2341): add oauth" turn into "The Authentication Overhaul"
rather than something generic.
Stack: Next.js 15 · GSAP ScrollTrigger · D3.js · NVIDIA NIM ·
GitHub REST API · Vercel
A few timelines worth trying:
→ facebook/react — watch the community inflection point
→ expressjs/express — a textbook "peak and plateau" arc
→ vercel/next.js — growth goes vertical after 2020
Source is fully open: github.com/Rohan5commit/codetimeline
I'd love to know what your repo's timeline looks like — drop it in
the comments. Happy to answer any questions about how it works.
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About CodeTimeline on Product Hunt
“Turn any GitHub repo into its visual development story”
CodeTimeline was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #133 on the daily leaderboard. Paste any public GitHub URL → get a scrollable visual history of the entire project. The GitHub API pulls commit history, contributor joins, and language shifts. An LLM groups this into named narrative chapters — "The Foundation", "The Great Refactor" — so the repo's story reads like a story, not a log. Contributor avatars, language charts, commit sparklines. Shareable OG card included. Open source. MIT licensed.
CodeTimeline was featured in Open Source (68.6k followers), Developer Tools (515.4k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 217.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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