Launch HN: GitStart (YC S19) – Remote junior devs working on production PRs

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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  • cal.com

    Scheduling infrastructure for absolutely everyone.

  • I'm confused about the pricing. The pricing page shows this PR as an example of a "small" PR of 15 "credits". I have a hard time agreeing that this change is worth $150: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/pull/8218/files

    When seeing $10/credit, I thought a PR this small would be just one or two credits. I'd totally pay $150 to fix 10-15 such small bugs, but only one? Am I missing something?

  • sourcegraph

    Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody

  • SourceGraph: https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pulls?q=is%3Apr+a...

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • storybook

    Storybook is a frontend workshop for building UI components and pages in isolation. Made for UI development, testing, and documentation.

  • Strapi

    πŸš€ Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.

  • supabase

    The open source Firebase alternative.

  • Supabase: https://github.com/supabase/supabase/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%...

  • Twenty

    Building a modern alternative to Salesforce.

  • Twenty: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3A...

    Our main technical challenge has been securing code sharing. One solution was building GitSlice, which enables creating sub-repos that sync with the upstream repo. When GitStart devs create PRs on the platform, GitSlice syncs them upstream while pulling back CI/CD checks and review comments. This enables our devs to contribute with limited codebase access.

    To prevent slices from breaking, we verify they run within a docker container, which also enables us to build review environments. Fun fact: we managed to support native iOS and Android codebases by building and running them on appetize.io instead of docker.

    There have been countless attempts at this space so we would love to hear your feedback on how we approached this problem or your past experiences working with junior devs in this way. We look forward to a good conversation!

  • copybara

    Copybara: A tool for transforming and moving code between repositories.

  • You can potentially use CopyBara https://github.com/google/copybara

    We go much further than CopyBara by syncing CI / CD pipelines, syncing review comments and so on.

    We are considering launching GitSlice as product on its own. If you are interested, email me and I can keep you updated when its ready to test (hamza [at] gitstart [dot] com)

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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