I lost 3 enterprise clients in one night because of a GitHub repo. So I built a tool to make sure it never happens again.
A developer lost three enterprise clients due to a critical failure caused by an unvetted GitHub repository. In response, they created a tool called RepoLens to evaluate the health of GitHub repositories quickly. The tool provides a comprehensive score and insights into repository quality, aiming to prevent similar issues for other developers.
- ▪The developer lost $120,000 in annual revenue after a library failure during a product demo.
- ▪They created a personal checklist to evaluate GitHub repositories after the incident.
- ▪RepoLens provides a health score and detailed insights into repository quality.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3935700) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } vigneshwar Posted on May 24 I lost 3 enterprise clients in one night because of a GitHub repo. So I built a tool to make sure it never happens again. #opensource #react #webdev #github It was 11:47 PM on a Tuesday. I had just pushed to production. Closed my laptop. Made tea. Felt good about myself. By 3:14 AM my phone was a disaster. 17 missed calls. 43 Slack messages. 6 emails.
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