Followed By
Followed By uses GitHub’s public API to fetch mutual followers for every profile you visit, straight to the profile page!
What is Followed By?
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Summary
ever visit someone’s GitHub profile and wonder — hmm, do we know each other? well here’s an easy fix to traverse the builders social graph: ✨ getfollowedby.xyz ✨
🤔 it’s cool, but is it any good?
- get set build: no package installs, followedby has 0 runtime dependancies
- your data is yours: no logging or storage on any server, because there ain’t any!
- clean and concise: built only using vanilla JS and the web API
- feels like it belongs: all UI config is inspired from GitHub Sponsors, making followed by look like a first party product
🫡 plans for the future?
this project was made purely out of fun, to take my mind off things. feel free to contribute by creating issues/PRs and i will review them when i get the time. potential future features, might include follows you
badges, safari support and migrating to typescript.
made for fun, and maybe for myself ✌️
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Risk impact
Followed By is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Followed By has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.
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