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Vida Khoshpey
Vida Khoshpey

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Make Your GitHub README Look Better with This Simple Languages Card 🥰

👋 Hey devs

I built a small open-source tool called GitHub Languages Card.

And honestly… it started as a side experiment, but it ended up being something I now actually use in my own README.


The idea is simple:

Take your GitHub profile and turn it into a clean, visual language card.

No noise. No clutter. Just your real stack — visualized.


Live Demo

👉 Click Here for Demo


themes

Choose your own theme so many themes for cards actually I love dark-neon and hacker and also pink one ❤️🔥


💡 Why I built this

Most GitHub profiles have the same problem:

They contain a lot of data… but they don’t show anything at a glance.

So I asked myself:

“What if your GitHub profile could instantly show what you actually code in?”

That’s where this project started.


⚙️ What it does

GitHub Languages Card:

  • fetches your public repositories
  • analyzes programming languages you use
  • calculates your real language distribution
  • generates a clean, embeddable card for your README

Simple idea. Surprisingly useful.


🖼️ Preview

Here’s what it looks like:

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🚀 Why you might like it

If your README feels:

  • empty
  • outdated
  • or just not “you”

this gives it a quick upgrade without effort.

It basically turns your GitHub into something more visual and alive.


🔥 Real use case

You can literally drop this into your README and instantly get:

  • a visual summary of your stack
  • a cleaner developer profile
  • something recruiters actually glance at

No setup pain. Just your username.


🧠 What I learned building this

This was also a good excuse for me to learn:

  • how GitHub API actually behaves in real projects
  • how to process real-world noisy data
  • how small tools can improve developer branding

📦 Repo

👉 Repository
If you find it useful:

  • ⭐ star it
  • fork it
  • or just use it in your README

No pressure 🙂


❤️ Final thought

Sometimes the best projects are not the biggest ones

they’re the ones that make your profile feel a little more alive.

Hope this helps someone improve their GitHub presence


Also sorry my internet connection is so unstable, I don't know these images loaded or not so go check on my README.md plz 🙏🏻🥺

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