How Many Peters?

Rank your GitHub R&D org against @steipete in one absurd, useful unit: the Peter.

A Next.js demo that takes verified 2026 YTD GitHub activity (commits, PRs, issues) and prices it in Peters — where 1 Peter = @steipete's YTD output as a solo developer. It's part benchmark, part roast, part trust-building exercise about what GitHub-visible metrics can and can't say about an engineering org.

What you get

Type any org slug (supabase, microsoft, awslabs, vercel, …) and the page renders:

• Total Peters — your YTD verified GitHub motion ÷ Peter's.
• Peter Density — Peters per active contributor. Keeps big orgs honest.
• Momentum — projected year-end totals at current pace.
• Cohort rank — you're compared against orgs your size, not just the whole field.
• A diagnosis paragraph — a roast/observation about whether you out-commit Peter, out-collaborate Peter, or quietly lose to Peter on density.

Org leaderboard

Side-by-side comparison

Share card + category breakdown + methodology

Mobile

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/zozo123/peter-gt-your-org.git
cd peter-gt-your-org
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000. No env vars required — the public preview ships with verified 2026 YTD snapshots for Supabase, Microsoft, Google, AWS, Vercel, Linear and a couple of demo orgs.

Connecting a real org (private coverage)

Public mode counts only what's GitHub-visible. To include private repos for an org you have access to, hand the Next.js server a token:

GITHUB_TOKEN="$(gh auth token)" npm run dev

The token is read server-side only — it is never sent to the browser. It's used to call GET /search/commits, GET /search/issues and GET /orgs/:org against the GitHub REST API.

Environment variables

Copy .env.example to .env.local to set these locally.

Methodology

• Window: 2026 YTD — everything since 2026-01-01.
• What counts: verified commits, pull requests, and issues created in the window. Reviews and other signals are folded in for orgs where the data is available.
• Peter baseline: @steipete's public GitHub activity over the same window, treated as 1.0 Peters.
• Tiers:
  • < 0.1 — GitHub Intern Energy
  • 0.1 – 0.5 — Warming Up
  • 0.5 – 0.9 — Dangerous
  • 0.9 – 1.1 — Peter-Class
  • 1.1 – 2.0 — More Than One Peter
  • 2.0 – 5.0 — Peter Factory
  • ≥ 5.0 — Industrialized Peter
• What this is not: a productivity score, a hiring signal, a promotion artifact, or a fair comparison across companies of wildly different sizes. The Peter Density metric exists specifically to flag the "we have 5,000 engineers, so of course we out-commit one guy" failure mode.

Deploy

Click the Deploy with Vercel button at the top of this README, or:

npx vercel

Next.js 15 auto-detects on Vercel — no vercel.json needed. To enable private-org coverage in production, set GITHUB_TOKEN in your Vercel project's environment variables.

Tech

• Next.js 15.5 (App Router, Turbopack)
• React 19
• Tailwind CSS v4
• TypeScript 5
• No database, no auth, no client-side secrets — the GitHub token (when present) is read on the server and never serialized to the client.

Project layout

app/             Next.js App Router entry + global styles
components/      All UI (Hero, Leaderboard, ComparisonStrip, ...)
lib/
  liveGithub.ts      Server-only GitHub API calls (token+org → live row)
  mockSnapshots.ts   Public-preview fixtures
  peterMath.ts       Peter Index / Density / tiering math
  types.ts           Snapshot / fixture types
docs/screens/    README screenshots

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Built as a riff on @steipete's legendary solo-developer commit graphs. Peter, if you're reading this: you're the unit. Sorry.