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Tutorial: Adding Holopin badges to your GitHub profile

Rob Phipps on September 29, 2022

Making your GitHub profile more awesome! You probably use a code sharing site like GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket to showcase your l33t cod...
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Wade Zimmerman

So far I have 3 badges! Can't wait for Holopin to become more popular! Hoping that after Hacktoberfest that more companies will provide integrations. Would be super cool if the @thepracticaldev synced all its badges with Holopin.

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Abhishek Keshri

+1 for this @thepracticaldev

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Rob Phipps
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Kasper Andreassen

And guess what? They're not NFTs.

This is what sells the product. Hallelujah 🙏

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Andy Piper

Nice post, Rob - thanks for sharing. I think this is a really clear explanation of how to add these new badges to pages like a GitHub profile. I'm excited to start earning some :-)

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Andy Piper

OK, I couldn't resist... here's my newly-shiny profile!

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Rob Phipps

Looking good 😁 - and good luck with Hacktoberfest!

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Joe Mainwaring

This is a cool tutorial, but I see one fundamental problem: I can't participate. I tried, but there's no options available to me to add badges in the service.

I assume this means you just got this idea off the ground, which is awesome! But I would suggest a little more investment into usability, it'll enable people like myself to participate more easily :)

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Joe Mainwaring

Okay, I have 1 badge after manually engaging with your signup workflow, so there's at least something.

This is a cool idea, but as far as adding this to my github, I would like to be able to showcase skills before I were to add it to mine. Any idea on when we might expect badges like that?

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Rob Phipps

Hi Joe - great to hear the love for the platform! Holopin badges are credentials so they need to be issued to you by a partner organization. Hop on over to @hacktoberfestteam and register for this year's Hacktoberfest for another badge, and we're working to bring more issuing organizations onboard over the coming weeks so your badges have some friends! If you have any projects you'd like to see issuing badges, please tag them in this thread to spread the word 😁 (...some may also say there's another Pegasaurus about if you DM us your Holopin username 🦖 👀)

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fontchangerguru

Can we use special hacker text in our profile?

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Maame Afia Fordjour

Great post! Saving this for later.

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Dhruv Joshi

That was helpful! :)

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Jonak Adipta Kalita

How to get all the badges?

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Oscar Felipe Palacios

x2

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Juan Vega

I also added Holopin to my github home!! 🎉

PS: Thanks for the support on twitter to issue my hackotberfest badge 🙇🏽‍♂️

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d_777 • Edited

Hey once I have added the holopin badge board on github but it's not getting updated on github after I received more badges. Any solution for the same?

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Lucas

it's looking nice ^^

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Andrea Tvilling

is it just me or my board has no badges?

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Exequiel Herrera

It works for me, since I didn't like any banner I had on github!
github.com/exequielhb

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Mehedy Hasan Ador

I created holopin account just now. But didn't show any badges in my profile
Should I wait or did I missed anything?