diff --git a/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/GithubController.php b/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/GithubController.php
index c170f17ee..c4abc1ea3 100644
--- a/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/GithubController.php
+++ b/app/Http/Controllers/Auth/GithubController.php
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ private function userNotFound(GithubUser $user): RedirectResponse
             return redirect()->route('home');
         }
 
+        if (! $user->hasPublicRepositories()) {
+            $this->error('errors.github_account_no_repositories');
+
+            return redirect()->route('home');
+        }
+
         return $this->redirectUserToRegistrationPage($user);
     }
 
diff --git a/app/Social/GithubUser.php b/app/Social/GithubUser.php
index 63e8203ed..15ac9d15c 100644
--- a/app/Social/GithubUser.php
+++ b/app/Social/GithubUser.php
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ public function __construct(
     ) {
     }
 
+    public function hasPublicRepositories(): bool
+    {
+        return $this->get('public_repos') > 0;
+    }
+
     public function isTooYoung(): bool
     {
         return $this->createdAt() > $this->twoWeeksAgo();
diff --git a/lang/en/errors.php b/lang/en/errors.php
index 55c8844e8..8f3f31cc0 100644
--- a/lang/en/errors.php
+++ b/lang/en/errors.php
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
     'fields' => 'Something went wrong. Please review the fields below.',
     'github_invalid_state' => 'The request timed out. Please try again.',
     'github_account_too_young' => 'Your Github account needs to be older than 2 weeks in order to register.',
+    'github_account_no_repositories' => 'Your Github account needs to have at least 1 public repository in order to register.',
     'github_account_exists' => 'We already found a user with the given GitHub account (:username). Would you like to <a href=":login">login</a> instead?',
 ];
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Social/GithubUserTest.php b/tests/Unit/Social/GithubUserTest.php
index 939175927..191423297 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Social/GithubUserTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Social/GithubUserTest.php
@@ -14,3 +14,14 @@
 
     expect($user->isTooYoung())->toBeTrue();
 });
+
+it('can determine if the user has public repositories', function (int $numberOfRepos, bool $expected) {
+    $user = new GithubUser(['public_repos' => $numberOfRepos]);
+
+    expect($user->hasPublicRepositories())->toBe($expected);
+})->with([
+    [0, false],
+    [1, true],
+    [2, true],
+    [3, true],
+]);