Sturdy

Simple & efficient code collaboration

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Simple & efficient code collaboration

5 followers

Sturdy is a low overhead code collaboration platform for fast moving teams. High-level operations around developer intent, enable early & fast feedback on cod, compatible with git and GitHubGive code feedback, not reviews!

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Launch tags:Productivity•Developer Tools•GitHub

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Kitemaker

I find Git confusing and at times error-prone. ?makers are doing a great job at building something better :) Congrats on the launch!

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4yr ago

GitButler

Maker

Hey Hunters! My name is Kiril and together with Gustav, we are the co-founders of Sturdy. Sturdy is a version control platform, specifically built for collaborating on code at work. It removes most of the overhead associated with contributing code in a team setting. 🙋 Why did we build Sturdy? I think it's fair to say that the way we code at work is not the same as open-source. The biggest difference is in how closely developers collaborate with one another — at work, we do standups, plan together, and share knowledge. On top of that, waiting for code reviews sucks! For developers adopting DevOps and Continuous Delivery, shipping small, incremental changes is crucial. At the same time, the default pull request workflow has a fixed overhead per contribution — pulling code, creating a branch, staging, committing, pushing etc., not to mention getting a review! This is very pronounced when trying to integrate your code multiple times per day. 🧑‍💻 How is collaborating with Sturdy different from code reviews? With Sturdy, you work in the open within your team. This means you can discover and interact with draft code in your team as it is written. Those team drafts are a bit like live pull requests (think Figma or Google Docs, but using your local editor). You can easily get a copy of someone else's draft code to your computer, explore it in your IDE and edit the code to automatically create suggestions. But why? This enables early, proactive feedback. It means you can help each other in a meaningful way, communicate better, and when everything goes well, your code is pre-reviewed. Contributing code should not feel like submitting homework! 💁 Sounds a lot like pair programming. How is collaborating with Sturdy different? Pair programming is great for knowledge sharing and moving fast, but the tradeoff is flexibility — you have to be there in the moment. Some developers describe Sturdy as asynchronous pair programming. This is because, similar to pairing, everybody in the team can see, try, and give suggestions to draft code. The key difference is that feedback exchange can happen whenever it suits individuals, and doesn't require you to be in a call. 🤷 Is it compatible with my existing setup? Yes! Sturdy uses Git as a database but not as a protocol. This means preserving compatibility of the output, while gaining flexibility to design new ways of interacting with code. It also has a GitHub bridge integration, which allows you to use it side by side with your existing setup, CI/CD and other integrations. 💻 Can I try it by myself, without involving my team? Yes, absolutely! Your own workflow will be faster for it. It's not necessary for an entire team to adopt Sturdy to benefit from a more leveraged VCS experience. With the GitHub bridge set up, by default, Sturdy follows changes on the default (main) branch and allows you to quickly create pull requests. 🐣 Where can I learn more? You can try Sturdy in the Cloud for free, or even run your own Sturdy instance with a Docker one-liner. For a more detailed description of how everything works as well as getting started, check out our documentation pages where we continuously add new content. Sturdy is also open-source - ( https://github.com/sturdy-dev/st... ) We would love to receive your feedback, bug reports, issues, and even code. Feel free to ask me any questions in the comments!

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4yr ago

Proactive feedback is such a time saver and i can see it being a great software quality boost as well! I've seen far too much time wasted on the author of a pull request taking a wrong step early in their solution just to end up having to re-write the entire thing days later when they publish their monolith PR and someone points out an intrinsic flaw with the solution. I've also seen a lot of sub-optimal code being approved just because the solution technically works, it's not flawed enough to warrant an entire re-write and someone has already spent days writing it. I'm super excited to see what kind of gains a solution like this can bring!

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4yr ago

Polar

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@jwedi Yes! This comment is SPOT ON! 💪💪💪 It's so funny (but mostly sad) to see a large pull requests with 4000 lines changes to be approved with a single "LGTM", where as a smaller PR can be nit-picked to death.

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4yr ago

What kind of protection or encryption does this software provides? Anyway it looks like a great product 👍

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4yr ago

Archbee

I can think of some usecases for Sturdy. I like that you are also going open-source. Congrats on the launch!

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4yr ago

Polar

Maker

@dragos_bulugean Thank you! 🎉 We love open-source and the entire community, so it was a no-brainer for us to open-source Sturdy!

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4yr ago

Athenian

Having spent a big part of my career in dev tools. This is the first product I've seen that meaningfully improves upon git. IMO this is the future of how we collaborate on code.

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4yr ago

GitButler

Maker

@eisokant It's only a matter of time, indeed!

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4yr ago

I've been using Sturdy for a while and I love that the changes I make are immediately detected and all the git hassle is omitted. P.S I find it funny how git is so unnecessarily complex that it actually counts as a requirement for many dev positions.

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4yr ago

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