What is github-trends?

This tool creates visual charts showing how many GitHub stars a repository, person, or organization has accumulated over time. Instead of just seeing the current star count, you get a graph that plots the entire history, useful for tracking growth trends, comparing projects, or showing off your project's momentum. The way it works is straightforward. You point it at a GitHub user, organization, or specific repository, and it fetches the historical star data, then generates an SVG image (a format that scales perfectly on any website). You embed this image on your own site using a simple URL with a few parameters. For instance, ?user=ory shows all the stars across that organization's repositories combined, while ?user=ory&repo=kratos zooms in on just one project. This would be handy for a few real scenarios. A startup founder might embed their project's star chart on their landing page to show traction and growth. A maintainer could add it to their README to give visitors a quick visual sense of how popular the project has become. An organization could use it to compare how different projects are performing. It's also just interesting to see the story of a project, those moments when something suddenly takes off versus steady, gradual growth tell you something. The project is written in Go and runs as a web service. The README doesn't explain the technical details of how it fetches or caches GitHub data, but the core idea is simple: it's a lightweight API that turns GitHub's data into embeddable charts. The service is already deployed and ready to use, you don't need to run anything yourself, just plug in the URL with your parameters and you get back an image.