Consistency
91The profile shows long-term activity since 2015, with several first-party repositories updated in 2026 and additional maintained work across earlier years.
Accepted player card · Rank #5
@3b1b
Grant Sanderson
I make videos about math.
87.6Tier A
Category breakdown
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Impact
96The portfolio is centered on a major Python project alongside video production and publishing infrastructure, indicating unusually ambitious and coherent public work.
Quality
78Multiple non-fork repositories are active and organized around distinct production concerns; the metadata supports strong maturity signals, though implementation quality cannot be assessed without source-level evidence.
Breadth
67The portfolio spans Python, MDX, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Shell, with software, web, video, captioning, and operational projects represented.
Depth
94The flagship repository, production tooling, and related publishing projects indicate sustained ownership across a substantial ecosystem over many years.
Community
99The supplied metadata shows exceptionally strong community reach and substantial repository interest; this is used only as a weak positive tie-breaker, not as evidence for other categories.
Contribution activity
365 day window
Playful reviews
The accidental infrastructure empire
You started with a project for making mathematical animations and somehow ended up maintaining the software equivalent of a small civilization. The name says “manim”; the timeline says “congratulations, you now run a graphics ecosystem.”
The video factory floor
Most people make videos; this repository suggests you also built the conveyor belt, quality-control station, and mysterious blinking control panel behind them. At this point, the content pipeline has content pipelines.
Caption civilization
A dedicated captioning repository is a wonderfully specific declaration that even punctuation gets production infrastructure. Somewhere, a subtitle is waiting for its own deployment ceremony.
Operations, but make it educational
The portfolio includes a project whose name sounds like the backstage clipboard nobody applauds—until it disappears and the entire show falls apart. Glamour is temporary; caption operations are forever.
The tiny fossil in the tool shed
Among the grand animation and publishing machinery sits a compact site experiment from an earlier era, like finding a charming hand-cranked appliance in a room full of launch systems. Small project, enormous historical vibes.
Repository highlights
3b1b/manim
97A long-maintained, non-fork Python project with very substantial public interest and a central role in the portfolio.
Python89216 stars
3b1b/3blue1brown.com
75An active, non-fork MDX website project that supports the portfolio's public-facing publishing infrastructure.
MDX722 stars
3b1b/videos
88A substantial non-fork Python repository focused on video-related work, updated recently and closely aligned with the portfolio's core theme.
Python11045 stars
3b1b/captions
62A TypeScript captioning project with evidence of real ownership and maintenance, though its last listed update is older than the main projects.
TypeScript282 stars
3b1b/doublependulumvideo
35A small, older forked project related to video experimentation, with limited evidence of current ownership in the supplied metadata.
Unknown18 stars
3b1b/perseus
38An older forked JavaScript project with modest scope signals and no recent listed update.
JavaScript172 stars
3b1b/moderngl
32An older forked project with limited metadata evidence of current maintenance or distinctive ownership.
Unknown134 stars
3b1b/caption_ops
58A non-fork Python operations-oriented project updated recently, suggesting active support work around the broader production workflow.
Python32 stars
3b1b/site_demo
34A small, older non-fork Shell project that appears to be a compact site or deployment experiment rather than a major portfolio pillar.
Shell27 stars