
I was tired of OSS PRs going nowhere — so I built a tool that tells you what to work on and how to solve it
I was tired of OSS PRs going nowhere — so I built a tool that tells you what to work on and how to solve it Tags: opensource github webdev productivity I've been contributing to open source for a while now. And for a long time, my workflow looked like this: Browse GitHub issues for an hour Pick something that looks doable Spend a weekend on it Submit the PR Wait ...still waiting Move on feeling defeated Sound familiar? The problem was never the code. It was that I had no system for picking the right work. The real problems nobody talks about When you're contributing to open source, there are three invisible problems killing your momentum: 1. Issue selection is a black box You pick something that looks interesting. But you have no idea if the maintainer is even active, if someone else is already working on it, or if this type of PR ever gets merged in this repo. 2. Competition is higher than you think Those "good first issue" tags? Everyone sees them. By the time you finish, three other
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