Microsoft is 1.84 Peters, Google is 0.66. What's the Peter unit?
Summary
A Next.js tool that ranks GitHub organizations by comparing their YTD activity to solo developer @steipete, using 'Peters' as a unit for fun benchmarking. Includes public leaderboards and private org support.
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zozo123/peter-gt-your-org
Source: https://github.com/zozo123/peter-gt-your-org
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
| Var | Required | What it does |
|---|---|---|
GITHUB_TOKEN (or GH_TOKEN) | for live mode | Server-only token used to call GitHub Search + Orgs APIs. |
GITHUB_ORG | for live mode | Org slug to live-fetch (e.g. vercel). Added to the leaderboard as a live row. |
GITHUB_ORG_ACTIVE_CONTRIBUTORS | optional | Denominator for Peter Density. If unset, density isn’t shown for the live org. |
GITHUB_ORG_REPOSITORIES | optional | Override the repo count surfaced in the trust panel. |
GITHUB_ORG_DISPLAY_NAME | optional | Friendly name shown in the UI. Defaults to the GitHub org’s name. |
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 Energy0.1 – 0.5— Warming Up0.5 – 0.9— Dangerous0.9 – 1.1— Peter-Class1.1 – 2.0— More Than One Peter2.0 – 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.
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