What I Built
Overgrowth grows a living, breathing generative tree out of a GitHub username — a portrait of how a person builds, drawn from every repo, language, star and late-night push.
Type a name. Watch a few seconds of growth. Meet the tree you've been feeding for years without knowing it. Then the tree does something I didn't expect to love this much: it writes you a short poem about yourself — a little lantern-carrying wanderer walks in under the canopy to deliver it — and reads it to you out loud.
And because passion is also rivalry: hit ⚔ vs and grow two trees side by side — you and a friend, stat face-off between them, one shareable link.
The challenge said passion — rivalries, fandom, the World Cup. But the line that got me was "the love that fuels late-night side projects." That love already has a data trail; GitHub just renders it as the least romantic thing imaginable — a grid of flat green squares. I wanted the same history to grow something that looks alive. The emotional distance between "a chart of my commits" and "a tree my commits have visibly been feeding" is the entire project.
