gitcharta.vercel.app• Jul 26, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: GitCharta, generate a snapshot of any GitHub user's global networkIt just starts with how I could check if a person I followed on GitHub follows me back, or wanting to know if someone who starred my project started following me. I checked out some open source tools on GitHub and discovered a few, but the majority of them have limitations. First, they rely on the github rest api, so even if you decide to provide your PAT token, you are still stuck at around 5.000 requests (combining both following and followers). That’s not good for large accounts like Evan You or a really popular gitHub user with more than 5k followers. Second, they are either CLI tools that return another raw list or require you to sign up (and even in those cases, they are still stuck with the github rest api limitations and can't scale).So, I decided to create my own tool that others could use. But why just create another tool similar to the rest? I searched for a touch of originality and wanted to see the link, something we have in common. That's where the idea of countries came