
I wanted the best GitHub notifications in Slack, so I built it
Two things really annoyed me with GitHub notifications. First: when I merge my own PR and break CI/CD on main , I am not alerted. Second: existing notification solutions often spam me with bot comments and status updates (Vercel, Cloudflare, Wiz, CodeRabbit, and more), while human review signal gets buried under these notifications. That is why I built GitNotifier : GitHub notifications in your Slack DMs. TL;DR : it alerts you when your PR breaks main , and you can mute bots ;) The blind spot: post-merge CI failures on main Most GitHub notifications are PR-centric. That sounds fine until you realize what happens after merge. If your PR gets merged, and then CI/CD fails on main , you often miss it. The branch is red, production might be blocked, and you discover it too late. I even wrote a workaround years ago using GitHub Actions and Slack webhooks: Sending slack notifications with github actions . It's quite manual because you need to edit your GitHub Actions in all your repos and con
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