Alert your team in Slack when a GitHub project ships a new release

Checks your GitHub repos every day and posts a Slack message the moment a new release goes live.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each repository tracked.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Messaging & Notifications
Connects
GitHubSlack

The problem it solves

You rely on open-source tools or vendor libraries, but you only find out about new releases by accident or way too late. Manually checking every repo's release page is tedious and easy to forget.

Who it fits

A developer or technical team that needs to stay current on the open-source tools they depend on.

How it works

  1. Every day, the system checks your list of GitHub repositories
  2. It looks for any release published in the last day
  3. New releases are posted as a Slack message with the repo name and link
What you get

New releases spotted the day they ship

You get a Slack alert the moment a tool your team relies on ships a new release.

What you get

A Slack notification for every new release from the repos you're tracking.

What you need

A Slack workspace.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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