ForkForensics
recovers a deleted GitHub repo's history from forks
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HN · launched Sep 3, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 226 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes It queries the public GitHub API or Git network graph to enumerate existing forks of a deleted repository and inspects their commit logs to extract lost commit SHAs.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 708 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #604 of 709 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- react-builder · github · 2026-10-19 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- mango · github · 2026-10-19 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands · hn · 2026-05-02 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- hexpyrion · github · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch · hn · 2026-07-11 · 200 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- forkiq · github · 2026-10-12 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- .github · github · 2026-10-09 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- .github · github · 2026-10-12 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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