Engineering and IT automations
See where the TODOs are piling up
Searches the codebase for TODO and FIXME comments each month and emails you where the debt is concentrating.
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Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
What it does on a run
- 1Find the comments people left for later
- 2Turn a search result into a read on the codebase
- 3Email me the read once a month
When it runs
Every month on the 1st. You can change the schedule in plain words after you start it.
What it needs
GitHubGmailConnected once, then reused by every automation that needs them.
Where it stops
It halts before the irreversible part and shows you what it is about to do. You see the message, the recipient and the data it read, and nothing is sent until you say so. Once you trust it, you can tell it to stop asking.
Free, and no card. It runs for real, five times.
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