ForkForensics
recovers a deleted GitHub repo's history from forks
Details
- External ID
- 49550460
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- ForkForensics
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 3, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.12998405103668262
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- recover deleted github repo history from forks
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 274 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #232 of 275 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- Rust library for Undo/Redo using deltas, snapshots or commands · hn · 2026-05-02 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- hexpyrion · github · 2026-09-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch · hn · 2026-07-11 · 200 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SoDam_GitHub_Fork_List · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- The Engineer · hn · 2026-06-14 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I built a better GitHub search that rank repos by what matters · hn · 2026-05-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Gitstock–Transform you GitHub commit history into K-line and animations · hn · 2026-06-30 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- ios1-restore-tool · github · 2026-09-12 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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- No other launches for this product.
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