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DevPulse

Open-source developer engagement tracker — because DevRel teams deserve real metrics, not spreadsheet theatre.

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STATUSActive
YEAR2026
AREAS
  • Open Source
  • DevRel
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Self-hosted
THECODERPANDA / DEVPULSE
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DevPulse

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The Problem

DevRel teams today measure success with:

  • Manual spreadsheets pulled once a quarter
  • Vanity metrics (followers, stars) with no context
  • Fragmented dashboards across 6+ tools (GitHub Insights, Discord Analytics, YouTube Studio, Dev.to stats, Google Analytics, plus a Notion doc no one updates)
  • No way to attribute which DevRel activity moved which metric

The result: a whole discipline of storytelling around numbers nobody trusts.

DevPulse fixes this.

What It Is

A self-hostable dashboard that turns raw signals from GitHub, Discord, Discourse, YouTube, Dev.to, and RSS feeds into actionable DevRel metrics. Own your data, extend with plugins, prove your impact.

Surface What it does
Repo Health Stars, forks, PRs, issue response time, contributor growth, first-time contributors, bus factor
Community Pulse Discord/Discourse message volume, active members, response time
Content Reach Dev.to, YouTube, blog RSS: views, engagement, referrals
Activity Ledger Log talks, workshops, streams; correlate with metric deltas
Contributor CRM Track top contributors with identities unified across channels
Weekly Digest Auto-generated markdown report to email/Slack

Quickstart

git clone https://github.com/thecoderpanda/devpulse.git
cd devpulse
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:3000. API on 4000. That's it.

Architecture

apps/
├── web/         Next.js 14 dashboard (App Router + Tailwind)
├── api/         Fastify + Zod REST API
└── worker/      BullMQ worker + croner schedulers

packages/
├── db/                    Prisma schema + client
├── digest/                Handlebars weekly digest generator
├── integrations/core/     Source contract + registry
└── integrations/*/        github, discord, discourse, devto, youtube, rss

Every source is a plugin implementing a tiny Source contract. Ship a new integration in ~100 LOC.

Hosting

DevPulse is 100% self-hostable. Pick whichever fits your team — there is no paid tier.

  • Local: Docker Compose or pnpm dev on a 1 vCPU box
  • Free cloud stack: Vercel (web) + Fly.io (api + worker) + Neon (Postgres) + Upstash (Redis) — total cost $0/month for small teams
  • Homelab: Runs on a Raspberry Pi

Principles

  • Honest metrics over vanity metrics — deltas + context, not just raw numbers
  • Self-hostable by default — your DevRel data never leaves your infra
  • Pluggable — every source is a small package, add a new one in an afternoon
  • Boring stack — TypeScript, Postgres, Redis, Docker. No magic.

Roadmap

  • Slack, Mastodon, Bluesky integrations
  • MCP server — expose DevPulse metrics to Claude / ChatGPT / any MCP client
  • Claude Skills / OpenAI Skills — packaged skills so LLMs can query and act on DevRel data
  • Power BI custom connector — for BI teams already living in Power BI
  • Data warehouse exporters — Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, DuckDB
  • Grafana + Datadog + Prometheus export
  • Attribution model — link activities → metric deltas automatically
  • Public embed widgets — "stars this week", "PRs merged", etc. as SVG endpoints

Status

Live and open source. MIT-licensed, source at github.com/thecoderpanda/devpulse. Good-first-issues are labelled — PRs welcome.

Licensed under MIT. Star the repo, open an issue, ship an integration.