Every commit you've ever pushed was feeding a tree. I built the thing that lets you meet it.

What I Built Overgrowth grows a living, breathing generative tree out of a GitHub username — a portrait of how a person builds, drawn from every repo, language, star and late-night push. Type a name. Watch a few seconds of growth. Meet the tree you've been feeding for years without knowing it. Then the tree does something I didn't expect to love this much: it writes you a short poem about yourself — a little lantern-carrying wanderer walks in under the canopy to deliver it — and reads it to you out loud. And because passion is also rivalry: hit ⚔ vs and grow two trees side by side — you and a friend, stat face-off between them, one shareable link. The challenge said passion — rivalries, fandom, the World Cup. But the line that got me was "the love that fuels late-night side projects." That love already has a data trail; GitHub just renders it as the least romantic thing imaginable — a grid of flat green squares. I wanted the same history to grow something that looks alive . The emotional distance between "a chart of my commits" and "a tree my commits have visibly been feeding" is the entire project. And it's honest. Your abandoned repos are right there on the tree — bare, grey, leafless. Every builder has them. The tree doesn't hide its scars, and that's what makes it a portrait instead of a decoration. Demo 👉 Grow yours: https://overgrowth-one.vercel.app Two trees I met this weekend, same API, opposite souls: (screenshot: torvalds — a moonlit monolingual C giant, 250k-star blossoms, bare dead limbs, leaning into the night) (screenshot: a polyglot — dense multicolored canopy in real linguist colors) My favorite reading it produced, for a tree grown from 15 years of C: "Fed by 15 years of C — leaning into the late hours — 250,742 stars in blossom, 2 scars it doesn't hide." Code https://github.com/ayushbharadva/overgrowth — built entirely within the challenge window (see commit timestamps), AI-assisted with Claude Code, as the rules allow. How I Built It How behavior