Built with no cs degree

#github #showdev #webdev #javascript

I'm George — 18, self-taught, no CS degree. I've been building web apps for a while now and I recently shipped Orbit, a GitHub profile analyzer that runs entirely in the browser.

What it does

Drop in any GitHub username and Orbit pulls:

Language breakdown — color-coded bars showing their stack
Push activity — 12-month bar chart of how active they are
Top repos — sorted by stars with descriptions and metadata
Developer score — a /100 score based on repos, stars, followers, and activity
Quick stats — total stars, forks, languages, time on GitHub

No backend. No API key needed. Pure vanilla JS hitting the GitHub public API.

Try it

🔗 orbit-analyzer.vercel.app

Try it with torvalds or gaearon for dramatic results 😅

The stack

Vanilla JavaScript (no framework)
GitHub REST API v3
CSS with custom properties + clamp() for fluid responsive layout
Inline SVG favicons + JSON-LD structured data for SEO

What I learned

The hardest part wasn't the API calls — it was making the SVG score ring animate smoothly on load and getting the layout to feel right on every screen size without breakpoints. I ended up using clamp() throughout instead of media queries and it works perfectly from 320px phones to 4K.