Case study
GitHub User Finder
Search any GitHub profile and read the essentials — repos, followers, and bio — without the chrome.
- Role
- Personal Project
- Year
- 2025
- Status
- Live
- Stack
- Next.js · TypeScript · GitHub API
Overview
Search any GitHub profile and read the essentials — repos, followers, and bio — without the chrome.
What it does
- 01
Search any GitHub user by username
- 02
Avatar, bio, followers, following, and public repo counts
- 03
Copy username to clipboard
- 04
Fully responsive layout
The hard part
The GitHub API rate-limits unauthenticated requests aggressively, so the failure state had to be a real part of the design rather than an afterthought.
What it taught me
Error and empty states are most of the work in anything backed by a public API.