The 7 GitHub Signals That Predict Series A Rounds

Table of contents

1. Intro
   Introduction

   Why public data beats private intros

   9 min
2. 01
   Signal 1 — Commit Velocity Acceleration

   The 14-day window that fires before everything

   14 min
3. 02
   Signal 2 — Contributor Influx

   When four new names appear in two weeks

   12 min
4. 03
   Signal 3 — Infrastructure Repository Buildout

   The repos a startup ships before it ships

   11 min
5. 04
   Signal 4 — Star-Velocity Detachment

   When attention decouples from the work

   10 min
6. 05
   Signal 5 — Issue Closure Cadence

   The metric founders cannot fake

   11 min
7. 06
   Signal 6 — Downstream Dependency Adoption

   When other people's package.json says yes

   10 min
8. 07
   Signal 7 — Founding-Team Public Visibility

   When the engineers stop being invisible

   12 min
9. App.
   Methodology

   How to compute every signal yourself

   13 min
10. Walk.
    Appendix — A 90-Minute Replication Walkthrough

    Replicate one rank from the leaderboard, end to end

    18 min
11. Conc.
    Conclusion

    What to do on Monday morning

    7 min