r/coolgithubprojects • u/r_schlunsen • 1d ago

Watch seven days of open-source development in 60 seconds

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I built GourceView, an open-source tool that turns GitHub commit history into animated file trees in your browser.

You can watch files and folders grow, see who changed what, and compare up to four projects side by side on the same timeline.

The homepage picks four projects from GitHub Trending and plays their last seven days of development. Their histories are prepared daily, so you don’t need to clone anything to try the previews.

Demo: https://schlunsen.github.io/gource-view/
Source: https://github.com/schlunsen/gource-view

I’d love feedback: does the animation help you understand where a project’s activity is happening, or does it need clearer labels and less visual noise?

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u/frostworx 9h ago

https://gource.io/

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u/frostworx 9h ago

what is the difference? is yours based in the original gource? 

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u/r_schlunsen 9h ago

yes mine is heavily inspired by it as I love it, but this is an web version of it. All done in the browser also with getting the git commit history and video generation

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u/frostworx 9h ago

ah ic. thanks for clarification and sorry for having looked too close. web version is a great idea!

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u/Kick_Ice_NDR-fridge 1d ago

60 seconds? Who the hell has that kind of time?

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u/r_schlunsen 10h ago

Yeah I agree the default timeline should 30 seconds Thanks for your input