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Re: Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action

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I know other existing projects like this (GitHub profile generators), although I like the idea you can customize the template. However, it requires quite effort to deploy this one as you need to setup different services for the DB, deployment, etc. Since the data is pushed based on a GitHub action, I'm wondering if it's possible to just build a static site based on it. In the end, we're storing "snapshots" of the dat…

I don't understand why this requires Vercel. This could just be hosted on GitHub pages instead.

Re: Show HN: GitHub Stats Dashboard Powered by GraphQL API and GitHub Action

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I'm all about fun/creative aesthetics but this is a terrible implementation of the sketchbook idea. The font, the extremely tortured pixelated rendering, the low contrast, the excessive grid texture background...

I think a clean font choice would make this design far more usable

Can prob keep it for headers, but for any smaller text it just looks blurry.
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