I Built an AI That Turns GitHub Commits into Stories
The Spark It started with a code review. I was scrolling through a colleague's pull request -- about 40 commits spanning two weeks of work -- and I found myself genuinely impressed. Not just by the code, but by the narrative arc hiding inside those commit messages. There was a clear beginning (scaffolding, initial setup), a middle (the struggle with edge cases, the refactors, the "fix typo" commits at 2 AM), and an ending (tests passing, cleanup, the final polish). I thought: what if there was a tool that could take these raw commit logs and turn them into an actual story? Not a changelog. Not release notes. A story . That idea became GitStory . What GitStory Does GitStory is a web app that reads the commit history of any GitHub repository and uses AI to generate a narrative in one of six distinct writing styles: Dev Blog -- A technical blog post with code insights Engineer's Diary -- A personal development journal Novel -- Creative fiction where the developer is the protagonist Epic T
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