gh.pin

A personal wall for the GitHub repos you actually care about, with snapshots so you can watch them grow.

Public instance here: pin.heresy.wtf

What it does

• Pin repos by pasting a GitHub URL or owner/repo anywhere on the page
• Track metrics over time with periodic snapshots: stars, releases, and activity
• Read every README in one place, no tab-hopping
• Private by design: everything lives in your browser, no backend, no shared state, no auth
• Installable as a PWA

Pins, snapshots, and your optional GitHub token live entirely in your browser's IndexedDB. One deployed copy works for any number of people, each with their own independent wall.

Use it

Open the hosted instance and paste a GitHub URL (or owner/repo) anywhere on the page to store it as a tile. Installable as a PWA from the browser's install prompt.

Without a token the GitHub API allows 60 requests/hour, enough for a handful of pins. Add a fine-grained personal access token (no scopes needed for public repos) in settings to raise that to 5000/hour. The token never leaves your browser.

Deploy your own

Or manually with Wrangler:

npm install
npm run build
npm run deploy

Any static host works (GitHub Pages, Netlify, ...): serve the dist/ directory from the site root.

Develop

npm install
npm run dev

Vite + vanilla TypeScript, no framework. State and rendering live in src/app.ts, src/state.ts, and src/render.ts; storage is Dexie (IndexedDB) in src/db.ts; the GitHub REST client is src/github.ts.