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Score breakdown

Account maturity10.0 / 10
Original project quality15.5 / 18
Contribution quality26.9 / 27
Ecosystem / maintenance impact14.6 / 20
Community influence5.1 / 8
Activity authenticity17.0 / 17

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🧬 Stack & domains

Top languages
Go72%
Lua11%
Objective-C10%
C6%
Nix1%
Just1%
Domains
neovimneovim-pluginneovim-pluginsnvimnvim-pluginnvim-pluginsclimacosaccessibilityhomerowhomerow-appkeyboard

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🔥 Full roast

🔥 You’ve shipped 2,785 merged PRs and 4,560 contributions last year, but 70% target your own repos and all external hits land in list-style repos like awesome-neovim with zero verified file-level sample

y3owk1n — 89.10/100 · ELITE (Elite · Top-tier dev)

TL;DR: A prolific solo maintainer with a legit cross-platform flagship app, but his massive PR output is 70% self-directed, his external contributions are unverified and buried in list repos, and his 25 followers suggest almost no community reach for his output volume.

DimensionScoreNotes
Account maturity10/10Registered 6.26 years ago, contributions span 7 distinct calendar years
Original project quality15.5/1830 original repos with 776 total stars; top starred repo y3owk1n/neru (424 stars) is an actively maintained cross-platform Go desktop app with no star inflation signals
Contribution quality26.9/272,785 merged PRs out of 2,810 total PRs, 0% maintainer rejection rate, 1 author-closed external PR, 23 author-closed own-repo PRs, 0 trivial PRs in the recent sample
Ecosystem / maintenance impact14.6/2013 PRs + 12 commits across 3 popular repos (★21k awesome-neovim, ★6.1k obsidian.nvim, ★626 glide) across all-time contributions; 0 verified file-level samples are available for these external hits, so their substantive quality can't be confirmed
Community influence5.1/825 followers, 0 following, negligible social reach relative to code output volume
Activity authenticity17/174,560 contributions in the last year, activity across 4 distinct types, 0 days since last activity, no templated PR flooding (templated PR ratio 0.17, no flood suspect)

Red flags

  • All 13 all-time external contributions to popular repos lack file-level verification samples, so their substantive quality can't be confirmed — they could be list/docs edits rather than core code changes.
  • The recent PR sample contains zero external contributions; all recent work is self-directed to his own repos, so external contribution quality is unobservable in the current activity window.
  • 70% of all PRs target his single flagship neru repo, creating a narrow, insular contribution pattern with almost no cross-community footprint.

Score calibration No extra adjustment. The base score already reflects strong solo project ownership, high genuine activity volume, and existing external contribution signals, with no evidence of botting, trivial farming, or star inflation.

Verdict A legitimate high-volume solo maintainer with a solid flagship product, but his external contribution credibility is unverified and his community influence is negligible for his output level. No bad behavior red flags, just a very insular contribution pattern that leaves his external impact unproven.