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Do not just decorate your GitHub profile. Make it prove the right things.
Career-signal mapping, goal comparison, goal-aware repository ranking, public profile auditing and evidence-based README generation.
🧭 Map my signals · ⚖️ Compare two goals · 🎯 Optimize for a goal · ✨ Generate README · ⭐ Star · Español
No signup · No private repositories · No API key · Public GitHub data only · MIT licensed
GitHub Profile Booster is no longer just a collection of README templates and badges. The core product is now a browser-based career/profile intelligence toolkit built around public evidence.
Career Signal Map
→ Compare two career goals
→ Goal-Aware Optimizer
→ Generate / edit README
→ Publish
→ Re-audit
→ Share the result
The goal is simple: help a visitor understand what your public GitHub currently proves, what direction it supports best, and which evidence should be featured for the direction you actually want.
Question: What does my GitHub currently say I am?
The Career Signal Map compares your original public repositories across several directions at once:
- Frontend
- Backend
- Full Stack
- Data / AI
- Open Source
- Academic / Research
It ranks the visible evidence and shows which repositories contribute most strongly to your top directions.
Results are shareable by URL and can be exported as a 1200×630 PNG signal card.
Question: Backend or Full Stack? Frontend or Data/AI? Which one does my current GitHub support better?
The comparison tool evaluates the same public profile against two different career goals side by side.
It shows:
- A score for each selected direction.
- The gap between them.
- Five evidence dimensions for each goal.
- The strongest repositories for each direction.
- Repository overlap that can transfer between both goals.
- A practical bridge plan toward the second selected goal.
- A reproducible share URL.
- A downloadable comparison card.
Example maintainer demo: Backend vs Full Stack for @tec-2022
Comparison scores are presentation heuristics. They do not measure programming ability or probability of getting hired.
Question: I know where I want to go. Which public work should represent me?
Choose a target such as Internship/Junior, Frontend, Backend, Full Stack, Data/AI, Open Source or Academic/Research.
The optimizer then:
- Scores five dimensions — clarity, proof of work, freshness, goal relevance and credibility.
- Ranks the strongest repositories for that specific goal instead of blindly choosing the most-starred repos.
- Checks whether selected repositories are documented and current.
- Prioritizes the highest-impact profile fixes.
- Generates an evidence-based profile README draft using public work it actually found.
- Creates a reproducible result URL.
- Exports a social result card.
Repeated API requests are cached locally for a short period to reduce unnecessary calls.
Best when you want a fast check focused on the public profile README itself.
It reviews practical signals such as:
- first-screen identity;
- focus;
- tech stack;
- proof of work;
- links;
- structure;
- public evidence;
- visual support;
- obvious unsafe text patterns;
- useful depth.
Best when you want manual control after diagnosis.
Choose your details, stack and visual style, then copy or download the generated Markdown. A live README-strength indicator helps keep the profile focused while you edit.
Many excellent GitHub profile tools are optimized for adding things: badges, trophies, streaks, widgets, stats cards and animated sections.
GitHub Profile Booster is deliberately built around evidence, positioning and direction.
| Typical profile tool | GitHub Profile Booster |
|---|---|
| “Which widgets do you want?” | “What does your GitHub currently prove?” |
| One generic profile | Multiple career lenses |
| Manually choose projects | Rank existing public repos for the selected goal |
| One target at a time | Compare two career goals side by side |
| Generates prettier Markdown | Generates a narrative grounded in public evidence |
| More visual elements = more complete | Proof, freshness, relevance and clarity matter more |
| Static result | Shareable URL + downloadable result card |
| Generic checklist | Prioritized fixes + bridge plan |
The objective is not to create the loudest README. It is to create one a visitor can understand and verify quickly.
Can a visitor understand who you are and what you focus on quickly?
Do the strongest claims lead to public repositories, demos or documented artifacts?
Does the visible work still reflect what you can do now?
Would the featured projects make sense for the direction you selected?
Are the visible repositories documented, maintained and supported by public evidence?
| Before | After using the toolkit |
|---|---|
| “I think my GitHub looks Full Stack.” | Career Signal Map shows what the evidence emphasizes |
| “Backend or Full Stack?” | Side-by-side comparison shows the gap and bridge plan |
| “I know React, Python, C#, Docker...” | “These repositories best prove the stack relevant to my target.” |
| Random featured work | Goal-aware repository shortlist |
| Old projects mixed with current work | Freshness is surfaced explicitly |
| Generic README | Goal-specific positioning |
| Decorative badges without context | Evidence-linked project descriptions |
| “My profile is 7/10” | “These are the fixes with the highest impact.” |
| README written from memory | Draft based on public repositories actually found |
| Screenshot-only result | Reproducible URL + downloadable social card |
| Resource | What it does |
|---|---|
| Career Signal Map | Compare multiple career directions and export a shareable signal card |
| Career Goal Comparison | Compare two goals, repository evidence and a bridge plan side by side |
| Goal-Aware Optimizer | Goal-specific analysis, repo ranking, prioritized fixes and evidence-based draft |
| Quick Profile Audit | 10-signal public README heuristic |
| README Generator | Browser-based Markdown builder with copy/download |
| Community Showcase | Public entry point for real before/after examples |
templates/ |
60-second, Pro, Minimal and Bilingual templates |
docs/profile-scorecard.md |
Manual 10-point audit |
docs/profile-checklist.md |
Pre-publish quality control |
docs/badges.md |
Focused stack and profile badge snippets |
docs/public-repo-ideas.md |
Safe public-project ideas |
SHOWCASE.md |
Maintained showcase list |
Every push and pull request runs GitHub Actions checks that validate:
- required public pages exist;
- inline JavaScript parses successfully;
- basic page metadata is present;
- relative links resolve;
- the README references the flagship tools;
- the comparison and sharing controls remain present.
Public pages escape user-controlled repository text before inserting it into generated HTML views.
The browser tools work only with public GitHub information. Never publish credentials, private database URLs, client data, personal secrets or proprietary code.
The project deliberately avoids fake testimonials.
A maintainer dogfood demo is available so anyone can test the workflow immediately, while external profiles are only featured after voluntary submission.
The goal is to build a library of real profiles with different objectives — not make everyone look identical.
Useful contributions include:
- improve career-signal heuristics;
- improve goal-ranking heuristics;
- add a career lens;
- improve repository scoring;
- improve accessibility;
- improve multilingual support;
- submit a real before/after profile example;
- fix wording, links or browser compatibility issues.
Start with the good first issue or read CONTRIBUTING.md.
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