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I built a free GitHub-profile / GitHub-repo view counter

I built a free GitHub-profile / GitHub-repo view counter

via Dev.to WebdevPiyush Kokane

I used to use  antonkomarev's profile-views-counter , but it has limited customizability. So I built my own — it tracks how many times your GitHub profile or repo has been visited. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ How to use? Just add this to your profile / repo README: ![](https://view-counter-livid.vercel.app/api?username=your-username) That's it. No signup, no API key — Starts counting immediately. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✨ Features: Profile + repo counter — each gets its own count 3 layouts — horizontal, vertical, split 4 styles — rounded, square, no background, invisible Full rgba color support — including transparent backgrounds Fully customizable  — custom icon, label, font size, colors Abbreviated counts  — 12345 → 12.3K Invisible mode  — count silently without showing anything Self-hostable in ~10 minutes — Vercel + Supabase (both free) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ Tech stack: Vercel + Supabase (both free tier) Full guide + docs 👉 github.com/github-view-counter Would love

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