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

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.

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🛠️ 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.

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✨ 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)

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🆚 Quick comparison:

antonkomarev/views-counter is a most popular one out there but it has limited customizability.
I compared it here. 👇

Feature	antonkomarev	mine
Profile counter	✅	✅
Repo counter	❌	✅
Self-hostable	✅	✅
Custom label	✅	✅
Custom color	✅ hex only	✅ hex + rgba
Transparent background	❌	✅
Custom bg color	❌	✅
No background style	❌	✅
Split layout	❌	✅
Vertical layout	❌	✅
Custom icon color	❌	✅
Custom icon size	❌	✅
Hide icon	❌	✅
Hide label	❌	✅
Abbreviated counts	✅	✅
Base count offset	✅	✅
Invisible mode	✅	✅

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The biggest differences:

1. Repo counter — antonkomarev only tracks profiles, mine works for repos too
2. Transparent background — antonkomarev only supports solid hex colors, mine supports full rgba + hex so you can have a fully transparent background — really useful in some cases
3. Customization — antonkomarev has 4 fixed badge styles. Mine lets you control colors, layouts, icon, label, size and background independently

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Tech stack: Vercel + Supabase (both free tier)

Full guide + docs 👉 github.com/github-view-counter

Hope this helps,
Would love feedback and suggestions!