Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
GitHub retired their popular Skyline project, which allowed developers to visualize their yearly contributions as a 3D city. It was one of the most loved developer tools — thousands of developers used it to showcase their coding journey in a visually memorable way.
Currently, CommitPulse offers 4 SVG view modes (default, monthly, heatmap, pulse). While these are powerful, they are all either grid-based or chart-based visualizations. None of them render contributions as a panoramic city horizon — a cinematic, poster-like silhouette format that many developers loved about GitHub Skyline. With no embeddable replacement available anywhere, there's a clear gap for a skyline-style visualization that users can drop into their README.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add a new ?view=skyline parameter that renders contribution data as a city skyline silhouette:
- Weekly building bars: Group daily contributions into ~52 weekly buckets. Each week becomes a vertical building whose height is proportional to total weekly commits — the more you code, the taller your city grows.
- Gradient sky background: A dark-to-accent-color gradient creating a dusk/dawn horizon glow behind the skyline, giving it a cinematic feel.
- Architectural details: Subtle window-light rectangles on building faces to make them feel like real structures, not just bars.
- Star particles: Small dot elements scattered in the sky area above the skyline for added depth.
- Animated entrance: Buildings rise from the ground using SVG
<animate>, with support for ?animate=false for static PNG/PDF exports.
- Full compatibility: Works with all existing themes (
neon, dracula, gruvbox, etc.), custom colors (bg, accent, text), size variants (small, medium, large), and parameters like hide_title, hide_stats.
Usage:
Describe alternatives you've considered
- Using the existing isometric
default view — but that's a top-down 3D grid, not a horizon silhouette. The visual language is fundamentally different and serves a different aesthetic preference.
- GitHub's original Skyline project — but it was retired and is no longer available. There is currently no embeddable replacement on the internet.
- A simple
view=bar bar chart — this would work functionally but would lack the cinematic, architectural quality (gradient sky, window lights, star particles) that matches CommitPulse's premium design philosophy.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
GitHub retired their popular Skyline project, which allowed developers to visualize their yearly contributions as a 3D city. It was one of the most loved developer tools — thousands of developers used it to showcase their coding journey in a visually memorable way.
Currently, CommitPulse offers 4 SVG view modes (default, monthly, heatmap, pulse). While these are powerful, they are all either grid-based or chart-based visualizations. None of them render contributions as a panoramic city horizon — a cinematic, poster-like silhouette format that many developers loved about GitHub Skyline. With no embeddable replacement available anywhere, there's a clear gap for a skyline-style visualization that users can drop into their README.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add a new
?view=skylineparameter that renders contribution data as a city skyline silhouette:<animate>, with support for?animate=falsefor static PNG/PDF exports.neon,dracula,gruvbox, etc.), custom colors (bg,accent,text), size variants (small,medium,large), and parameters likehide_title,hide_stats.Usage:
Describe alternatives you've considered
defaultview — but that's a top-down 3D grid, not a horizon silhouette. The visual language is fundamentally different and serves a different aesthetic preference.view=barbar chart — this would work functionally but would lack the cinematic, architectural quality (gradient sky, window lights, star particles) that matches CommitPulse's premium design philosophy.