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OSS Contributor Onboarding Kit

Automate first-contribution guidance and good-first-issue matching for open source maintainers

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DifficultyEasy

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The Problem

Open source maintainers field the same new contributor questions repeatedly and spend hours triaging good-first-issues manually, burning out on overhead instead of building the project

Why It Works

“Recurring complaint in open source maintainer communities about onboarding overhead and good-first-issue management with no dedicated automation tool beyond GitHub Actions scripts”

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Contributor Retention Tracker

Track which contributors return for a second pull request and identify where first-timers drop off

The pain

Open source maintainers have no visibility into contributor retention patterns, not knowing which interactions or delays cause first-time contributors to never submit a second pull request

Source · Evidence

Recurring complaint in open source maintainer communities about contributor churn after first PR with no analytics tooling to understand retention drop-off patterns

MRR potential$1.5k–$5k/mo

Build time2–4 wks

DifficultyEasy

CompetitionLow

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OSS Review Response Time Monitor

Track pull request review response times and alert maintainers when contributors are waiting too long

The pain

Open source maintainers let pull requests sit unreviewed for days or weeks because they have no visibility into review queue age, causing frustrated contributors to abandon the project

Source · Evidence

Recurring complaint in open source communities about slow PR review killing contributor motivation with no dedicated review queue age monitoring for maintainers

MRR potential$1k–$4k/mo

Build time1–3 wks

DifficultyEasy

CompetitionLow

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OSS Health Scorecard

Score the health of any open source project across activity, responsiveness, and bus factor metrics

The pain

Developers evaluating open source dependencies for production use have no quick structured way to assess project health beyond star count, leading to adoption of unmaintained or single-maintainer projects

Source · Evidence

OSSF Scorecard exists as a CLI but there is no managed SaaS providing ongoing project health monitoring with trend tracking and embeddable badges under $40/mo

MRR potential$1.5k–$6k/mo

Build time2–4 wks

DifficultyEasy

CompetitionMedium

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Contributor Retention Tracker

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