Have you ever started your workday staring at a mountain of repositories, lost track of which PRs need your review, and felt completely drained before writing a single line of code?
As developers, we are constantly context-switching between reviewing PRs, sketching out architectures, addressing bugs, and executing deep work. Traditional tools treat all these tasks equally, but our brains don't. That's why I built Stitch—a productivity-first developer dashboard that groups and manages your GitHub repositories by your active energy level.
The Vision: Work How You Feel
The core philosophy behind Stitch is simple: match your tooling to your mental bandwidth.
Instead of overwhelming you with a wall of notifications, Stitch uses a floating panel that lets you switch between three energy modes. It filters your entire workspace based on what you actually have the capacity to handle right now:
- 🔋 Low Energy: Filters the workspace to show PR Reviews and open Issues. Perfect for the end of the day or right after lunch when you just want to clear the queue.
- ⚡ Medium Energy: Surfaces Tag Releases and Major Projects. Great for planning, syncing roadmaps, and cutting releases.
- 🔥 High Energy: Activates the "Focus Workspace" and Build monitoring. This is for deep work.
Stitch acts as a unified hub for both local clones and web-only remotes, securely utilizing GitHub OAuth without intermediate servers storing your code.
Beyond a Dashboard: The Potential of a Unified Workspace
Stitch isn't just about reading data; it's about staying in the flow state. The Focus Workspace acts as a deep-work sandbox for your active repository, featuring:
Architecture Diagramming: An interactive node-edge canvas (powered by React Flow) to map out and save your repo's architecture.
Native Productivity Tools: A built-in 25/5/15 Pomodoro timer, scoped markdown scratchpads, and a focus checklist.
Live Build Runner: Stream live build and linting outputs via SSE directly in the UI.
Remote Roadmap Sync: Automatically reads and writes roadmap items directly to a remote GitHub issue.
AI Provider Monitor: A dedicated utility to inspect and clean up disk usage from local AI tool caches (Gemini, Claude, Cursor, etc.).
The Tech Stack
Stitch is built to be fast, local, and flexible. You can run it as a web app or as a standalone native desktop application.
Backend: Go 1.24+ (REST API)
Frontend: React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Zustand
Desktop Wrapper: Wails v2
Diagrams: React Flow
Let's Build This Together (Hacktoberfest is Open! 🎃)
Stitch is currently in its early stages, and I am actively looking for collaborators to help shape its future. Whether you are passionate about developer productivity, love writing Go backends, or want to flex your React 19 skills, there is a place for you here.
I’ve tagged several issues with good first issue, making it easy to jump in—and yes, Stitch is participating in Hacktoberfest!
How you can help:
Frontend: Improving the UI/UX, adding new visualization components, or expanding the Focus Workspace tools.
Backend: Optimizing the Go server, expanding the GitHub CLI integrations, or enhancing the AI cache monitoring logic.
Ideas & Feedback: Try it out, break it, and open an issue with your feature requests.
If the idea of an energy-guided workflow resonates with you, check out the repository, star it, and let's stitch together a better way to work.
I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments! How do you currently manage context switching across dozens of repositories?
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