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 User Finder interface

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.