How I Built a Deal-Flow Signal From Public GitHub Data (219 Fundraises Backtested)Eighteen months ago I noticed something odd while stalking a startup's GitHub org before an angel check: their commit activity had tripled about a month before they announced their round. Not after. BAug 14 · 4 min readgitdealflow.hashnode.dev
I Tracked 350 Startups' GitHub Activity for 6 Months. Here's What Predicts Fundraises.Six months ago I started tracking the GitHub activity of 350+ startups across 15 sectors. The goal: find public signals that predict which startups are about to raise. I backtested against 219 actual Aug 14 · 3 min readgitdealflow.hashnode.dev
What I shipped in 24 hours after my Product Hunt launch failedThe setup I built GitDealFlow — a tool that tracks GitHub engineering acceleration on 4,200+ venture-backed startups and surfaces breakouts before they raise. I scheduled a Product Hunt launch for April 26, 2026 at 07:01 UTC. The maker dashboard acce...Apr 28 · 7 min readgitdealflow.hashnode.dev
I cut my MCP server from 8 tools to 5 and the hallucinations stoppedI shipped @gitdealflow/mcp-signal in two hours. Eight tools, mirrored one-to-one off our REST API. Felt clean. Looked clean. The first time I plugged it into Claude and asked "what's the trending startup in fintech this week," it called `get_startup`...1TApr 25 · 7 min readgitdealflow.hashnode.dev
I released a public dataset on startup engineering velocity (219 obs across 55 VC-backed startups)TL;DR — I just released a longitudinal panel of GitHub engineering velocity for 55 venture-backed startups across 20 sectors and 5 quarters. Free to use under CC BY 4.0. The SSRN preprint describing the methodology is at https://ssrn.com/abstract=660...1TApr 25 · 5 min readgitdealflow.hashnode.dev
