Specfy – Stack Intelligence Platform
Hey HN, I'm Samuel, founder of Specfy. Very excited to be launching Specfy, an open source platform to improve the way we talk about infrastructure and technology inside our organizations (https://github.com/specfy/specfy). During my time at Algolia --and previous--, I often felt the communication around production, tech choices and infrastructure was messy at best. Trying to understand how various components came together across teams or sifting through documentation scattered everywhere left me thinking there had to be a better way. Almost nobody, from engineering to…
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Specfy is an open source platform that helps organizations document and communicate their infrastructure and technology decisions. It ingests GitHub repositories to extract metadata and create a centralized view of production systems, components, and architectural choices. The platform is designed for engineering teams and leadership who need clarity on what technology is deployed, how systems are built, and why those choices were made.
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Hey HN, I'm Samuel, founder of Specfy. Very excited to be launching Specfy, an open source platform to improve the way we talk about infrastructure and technology inside our organizations (https://github.com/specfy/specfy). During my time at Algolia --and previous--, I often felt the communication around production, tech choices and infrastructure was messy at best. Trying to understand how various components came together across teams or sifting through documentation scattered everywhere left me thinking there had to be a better way. Almost nobody, from engineering to C-level, could entirely list what was currently in production, how it was built and, sometimes, why it was built. So, I decided to create something to address it. Specfy is what came out of that frustration. It's a platform that ingest all your GitHub repositories and extracts metadata, to create a continuously updated infrastructure graph and tech stack documentation. It's open source: https://github.com/specfy/specfy + https://github.com/specfy/stack-analyser You can try it here: https://app.specfy.io/ Short demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuMBEB0PLY It’s an open beta and as a solo founder I had to make hard choices regarding what features would land on production right now, but I would love feedback from the Hacker News community. I’m sure this problematic will resonate to some of you. Feel free to reach out to me [email protected] or contributes to the repositories.
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