Estimate your GitHub account value

So it’s based on contributions metric? Cool, I will automate a way to pr that fix grammar and typos in all github repos readme.md, and I’m a millionaire!!

Re: Estimate your GitHub account value

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Post by orf » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

10k… I’d take that. It’s 3 letters, which is rare I guess?

Re: Estimate your GitHub account value

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Post by siva7 » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC

Thanks. This will help sort out all low-networth applicants

Re: Estimate your GitHub account value

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Post by whalesalad » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 11:11 PM UTC

orf wrote: post #6

10k… I’d take that. It’s 3 letters, which is rare I guess?

Wow and mine was only $260

Re: Estimate your GitHub account value

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Post by terminous » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 11:25 PM UTC

Without any information on how this is calculated, this is pure snake oil. Could be a RNG for all we know. Shame.

Re: Estimate your GitHub account value

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Post by LorenDB » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 11:40 PM UTC

Linus Torvalds (username torvalds) is pegged at over $220k. Interesting, I'd think having the official GitHub mirror of Linux could arguably put his account worth in the millions.