CatLight

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We've built CatLight to improve productivity in one of my previous teams. It was common for our CI builds to stay broken for a while. As a result, developers couldn't merge and release new code, and they had to deal with pipeline problems unrelated to their changes. 🚨 Quite often, the team was not even aware that one of the pipelines broke down. We used Azure DevOps, and it has email notifications. But most engineers filtered them out, because they received so many of them, and many of them were irrelevant or outdated. 🐱 So, we built CatLight.io to address that. The app monitors the important CI/CD pipelines and displays the current status in the tray (or menu bar on macOS). When the build breaks down, it shows a desktop notification and changes the tray icon color. Even if the notification is missed, the icon will still be a reminder. 🔎 When an engineer volunteers to fix the pipeline, he can click on the "I will investigate" button in the app. The app will then let other team members know that they don't need to check it anymore. This prevents a problem when multiple people start checking it, or everyone hopes that someone else is checking the broken build. ✔️ The app can also monitor pull requests and issue tracker, where it works the same way as with builds. It will notify the developer about new action items, and show the overall status in the tray. So, you'll no longer need to ping people about getting a review for your PR. 🚥 For bigger teams, each developer can have a lot of action items on their plate. To help with that, you can create your own priority rules for the team to sort them. As a result, you'll have a clear action list across all systems that can be worked on from top to bottom. This automates the day-to-day prioritization work for team leads. It also reduces distraction for developers. They can let the app know that they are working on a specific action item, and CatLight will only show them notifications if something with a higher priority pops up. CatLight app runs on Windows/macOS/Ubuntu and integrates with many CI/CD systems and issue trackers, like GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jira. It is free for open-source projects and small teams. Excited to hear your thoughts on what we’ve built so far!

Great work! 😸 wanna to use :)