Your Pull Requests Are Being Ignored. Fix It with This Simple Bot

Pull requests don’t get stuck because they’re hard. They get stuck because everyone forgets due to various reasons. So instead of relying on memory, I built a small bot using Rapidforge that: finds stale PRs posts a clean reminder to Slack avoids spamming the same alerts What is RapidForge? RapidForge is a self hosted platform enabling users to turn small scripts into tools you can actually run and reuse. Its super easy to setup and use. What we’re building We’re going to create a small bot that: Connects to GitHub using a GitHub App Finds pull requests that haven’t been updated in a few days Sends a single, clean reminder to Slack Avoids repeating the same reminders using a KV store All of this runs as a single scheduled task with one Lua script. Step 1: Create a GitHub App Create a new GitHub App from your GitHub settings. Make sure to: Enable user authorization (OAuth) Install the app on the account or organization that owns your repository Give it read access to Pull Requests Limit