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forgithub

From Jan Wilmake's personal knowledge base

forgithub

forgithub is a family of GitHub-focused developer tools built by Jan Wilmake, launched in December 2025. The tools provide improved GitHub interfaces and LLM-ready context generation, building on the foundations of uithub.

Tools

Dashboard for GitHub (dashboard.forgithub.com)

A better personal homepage for GitHub, launched December 30, 2025.[1] Features:

  • Repos, Open PRs, Review Requests, Starred Repos — all easily searchable and sortable
  • Described as fixing the problem that "pretty much the entire GitHub homepage is useless"
  • Fully open source: github.com/janwilmake/dashboard-for-github

Context for GitHub (context.forgithub.com)

A LLM context tool that aggregates all repos relevant to you for use with AI, launched December 30, 2025.[1]

Jan's framing: "Selling context is going to be a thing: one-time purchase of context or subscriptions of context that stays up-to-date on a particular topic."[2]

githuq (githuq.com)

A chat interface for GitHub repositories — flip the 'b' to 'q' in any GitHub URL (github.com → githuq.com) to get a chat interface that uses the repo's README, tree, and agent instruction files as context, powered by justbash.dev.[3] Launched March 19, 2026.

Philosophy

Jan articulated a vision around "selling context" in January 2026: "Selling context is going to be a thing: one-time purchase of context or subscriptions of context that stays up-to-date on a particular topic. High quality context. Context is king."[2]

forgithub represents the GitHub slice of this vision — Jan's personal context around his own repositories and activity, made available to others.

In January 2026, Jan also shipped gcombinator — a URL-flip tool for Hacker News (change 'y' to 'g' in any ycombinator.com URL) that returns the full article context including comments, making HN discussions accessible to LLMs.[4] This follows the same pattern as forgithub (flip-the-letter URL access) applied to HN content.

Origin

forgithub grew out of the uithub ecosystem. Jan had ~1,000 users on a GitHub dashboard waitlist from early 2025 but never launched it that year. In late December 2025, he built both the dashboard and context tool in a single day.[5]

mcpchat.wilmake.com

A closely related project: in January 2026, Jan built mcpchat.wilmake.com — a browser-based remote MCP client that lets anyone chat with an MCP server without installing anything. The Notion MCP was used as a demonstration: mcpchat.wilmake.com/mcp.notion.com/mcp.[6] This follows the same "flip-a-letter" or "swap-the-URL" pattern as forgithub tools — ease of access to any MCP without setup friction.

See Also

References

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  6. X post archive: x-archive/raw/posts/2026-01-19.md ↑