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Playbooks
Reproducible playbooks for operator-investors, scouts, solo founders, and angels — each shipping a fixed time budget, a step-by-step rubric, and a clean handoff into the live product. Steal them, fork them, run them weekly.
How to source 10 dev-tool deals in a week (from GitHub trendlines)
A Tuesday-to-Friday playbook for sourcing ten qualified dev-tool deals using GitHub commit-velocity, contributor-influx, and star-detachment signals — no scraping required.
How to read a GitHub trendline like a partner (not a star-counter)
A 30-minute playbook for interpreting GitHub momentum charts the way a seed-stage partner does — separating durable commit-velocity from one-week star spikes.
How to qualify a 200-star repo in under 15 minutes
A repeatable 15-minute qualification rubric for the awkward middle — repos with 100–500 stars where you can't tell if it's a real company in the making or a side project.
How to find your first investable SaaS hiding on GitHub (solo-founder lens)
A weekend playbook for solo founders and angels — find one investable SaaS hiding on GitHub, qualify it, and decide whether you'd build the same thing or back the team building it.
How to spot a pre-seed round from commit-velocity (11 weeks early)
A signal-reading playbook that catches pre-seed rounds 8–14 weeks before they're announced — using only public GitHub commit-velocity, contributor influx, and infrastructure build-out signals.
How to build a weekly deal-flow newsletter from GitHub signals (no scraping)
A reproducible Friday-morning playbook for shipping a weekly deal-flow newsletter to your investor or founder audience — sourced entirely from the public signals feed.
How to turn a trending repo into a warm intro (no cold-email)
A four-touch sequence that turns a trending GitHub repo into a warm intro to the maintainer — Twitter, GitHub issue, public reply, then DM — over 10 days.
How to build a Dream-100 of GitHub orgs (community-led VC sourcing)
A community-led playbook for building a 100-org watchlist that produces compounding deal flow — modeled on the Dream-100 distribution discipline but applied to GitHub.
How these connect to the product
Every playbook hands off to the right surface at the right step — the free public signals feed for sourcing pulls, the methodology page for scoring questions, the free book for worked examples, and /firstlook for the live preview. Run a playbook end-to-end and you’ll naturally see which surface you want next.