skillsync
Discover hidden talent in your codebase
373 followers
Discover hidden talent in your codebase
373 followers
Skillsync analyzes your codebase to find domain experts, discover unique skills, and capture successful patterns. No surveys needed—just timely insights that help you scale what works across your team.
Product Hunt
I like this idea, @nars. How do you compare engineers based on the code they contributed? I.e. What differentiates a bad, ok, and great engineer with just that data?
skillsync
Hey @rrhoover! We don't want to classify developers as a good / bad at all. This is why we don't have any proficiency / score that we assign people. skillsync is about finding possibilities in each contributor. And the first step towards that is knowing or empathizing with their work. We all have our natural inclinations. Some of us naturally enjoy 'firefighting' or pushing hot fixes and some of us enjoy deep research or creative work. What if we all deeply understood each others strengths and played to them? what if we could empathize at scale? That's what skillsync is all about.
skillsync looks at how people contribute differently. In fact we think skills are getting much more transferrable with ai, giving us more freedom to do what we like :)
this is brilliant. are you using it on open source projects already to create a db?
skillsync
Thanks@jason_chernofsky !! Yess we are indexing new open source repos every single day!! So far we have Tensorflow, Linux kernel, Rust compiler, VS code, FFMPEG, Manim (any guesses why?) to name a few! Do let us know if you want to see any particular open source project on skillsync :)
HyperSwitch
Cool idea & Slick site — devs are going to love this! Curious how you're indexing all the repos — possible to share a quick overview of the data pipeline? Sounds like there's some fun stuff going on under the hood
skillsync
@bernard_eugine
Okay so, instead of just snapshotting whole repos, we went way more granular—down to each PR and commit. Why? Because that’s where the real story lives. Early genius often gets refactored out later, but we catch it in the moment.
The real cheat code? PR review comments. That’s where devs drop gold—how they think, debate, make tradeoffs. You can’t see that in the final code, but we index it all.
Our system basically runs a timeline scrubber: walking through main branch history in order, picking up each PR like an episode in the show. It’s not just static code—it’s code with context, intent, and vibes.
HyperSwitch
Curious about the 'playbooks' feature. Could this help maintainers create better contributor guidelines based on what actually works vs what we think works?
skillsync
@koushik_gampala Absolutely! The cool thing about playbooks is that the whole team does not have to rediscover the 'earned insight'. Today we can carry NASA's 10 principles for safety critical code as a system prompt with us to all our projects. So in this case the 'cost' of learning the contributor guidelines is approaching zero!
Useful product, will try it out!
skillsync
@ganesh_anegondi yess feel free to reach out to if you have any particular repo in mind!
HyperSwitch
Do you need a minimum amount of code history for this to be useful? What about newer projects
skillsync
@narayanbhat166 that's a great question! While the output obviously gets richer with more data, we've noticed that for newer contributors it takes at least 5-10 pull requests to get a meaningful output :)
As a founder building AI tools to help startup operators, I deeply resonate with what you're doing at SkillSync.
Job hunting can be incredibly discouraging — anything that brings clarity and structure to that chaos is a huge win.
Love the focus on personalized feedback and skill matching. Cheering for your launch and beyond!
skillsync
Thanks!@opsmate Agreed, you could also use skillsync to bring out your best self from your work :)
@nars Appreciate that! 🙌 Love how SkillSync focuses on helping people articulate their real value — something we deeply relate to at OpsMate.
Making founders’ work visible, scalable, and less stressful is at the heart of what we’re doing too 💼⚡