I built a project called ghRadar — a tool that helps developers track their profiles, compare two profiles and repos, trending GitHub repositories, top contributors, and maintainers and much more.

One challenge was keeping the data fresh. GitHub’s official API doesn’t expose trending data directly, so I needed a reliable backend source. That’s where Railway came in.

What I Deployed on Railway

• I deployed the unofficial github-trending-api on Railway:
  https://github-trending-api.up.railway.app/

• Railway made it very easy to spin this up — I just connected the repo, configured the service, and Railway handled the rest (build, deploy, and hosting).

• The API is now always available, without me worrying about infrastructure.

How My Project Uses It

• ghRadar calls this hosted API to fetch fresh trending data dynamically.

• This ensures users always see up-to-date information on GitHub’s most active repositories and contributors.

• By hosting the API myself on Railway, I don’t depend on random external servers going down — it’s reliable and fast.