Most GitHub profiles look like this:

# Hi, I'm John 👋 I'm a developer who likes coding.

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And that's it. A plain heading, maybe a bullet list of tech, nothing else.

Your profile is the first thing a recruiter, collaborator, or fellow developer sees when they look you up. You've got about three seconds to make an impression. A wall of plain Markdown isn't making one.

Here's what the good profiles have in common: animated headers, auto-updating stats, and dynamic content that actually runs on GitHub's own infrastructure — all via GitHub Actions, no external servers required.

I put together a repo that walks you through exactly how to do this, step by step.

What You Can Build

Here's what a finished profile can include — all generated automatically:

An animated gradient header banner (updates on every page load)

A typing animation for your intro line

Auto-updating stat cards: commits, stars, PRs, streak

A language breakdown chart

A tech stack badge grid

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