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Open source, first

Every big idea
started as a fork.

Forkpad scouts GitHub for projects worth building on, shows you the code and the people behind them, and helps you take the next step with the maintainers in the loop.

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Open the explorer How it works

$ git log --graph --oneline

  1. e4c1a07HEAD → mainmerge: your-idea into main
  2. 9be2f13ship: draft the launch with the maintainers
  3. 4c0d8aashortlist: keep the ones worth your weekend
  4. 77ae2c9inspect: read the code, the commits, the people
  5. 0d9f1b4scout: find the spark on GitHub
  6. f00d5e2init: a little curiosity

$ forkpad scout --window week

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The workflow

Four commits to your next project

  1. 01

    Scout

    Sweep GitHub by momentum, language and topic. Fresh repos from this week sit next to the steady giants.

    $ forkpad scout --topic agents
  2. 02

    Inspect

    Open any project to see who builds it, how often they ship, what it’s written in and how healthy the community is.

    $ forkpad inspect owner/repo
  3. 03

    Shortlist

    Bookmark the contenders and compare them side by side before you spend a weekend on the wrong one.

    $ forkpad shortlist --compare
  4. 04

    Ship

    Draft a launch for the project you believe in, and respect each maintainer’s published stance before it goes anywhere.

    $ forkpad ship --with-maintainers

Maintainers get the final say.

A single forkpad.json file in a repo tells Forkpad whether its builders welcome launches, want to be asked first, or would rather sit it out. We read it before every draft.

For maintainers