Built a tool to stop me from wasting hours looking for good first issues. Roast it?

OSSBuddy — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 05:31:31 +0000

So I keep running into the same annoying thing every time I want to contribute to open source: I open GitHub, search "good first issue," and then spend 45 minutes scrolling through stuff that's either dead, way too vague, or just not something I know how to do.

Got fed up and built OSSBuddy over the last few weeks. It's basically supposed to match you with projects/issues based on your actual skills instead of you doing the scrolling yourself.

Live:

Right now it does: GitHub sign-in, AI-based project/issue suggestions, AI to analyze the github repo and guide how to contribute to it and a leaderboard thing I threw in that I'm honestly not sure people care about.

I'm not fishing for "nice work" comments, I want to know what's broken or pointless before I sink more time into this. If you have 5 min:

Does the matching actually feel useful or does it just feel like it's guessing?
Did you get stuck anywhere between sign-in and the dashboard?
Leaderboard — worth keeping or just noise?
Honestly, would you even use something like this, or is manually hunting for issues not actually that painful for you?

Would rather find out now that this solves nothing for anyone than find that out in three months.

Stack: Next.js/Tailwind, Node/Express/MongoDB, GitHub OAuth, Gemini for the matching part.

Thanks to anyone who bothers clicking around.

DEV Community: OSSBuddy

Built a tool to stop me from wasting hours looking for good first issues. Roast it?