# My open source project hit 4.3k stars and ~60k PyPI downloads, and it's the reason I quit my job
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Let me give some background first. My wife and I always wanted to build a company together. We started building and marketing some side projects on weekends and nights, nothing too serious just shipping things and seeing what worked, One of our side project was working great as well, organically reached 25k users but we weren’t satisfied enough to take it full time. I've also worked with LLMs since 2023 and built a bunch of internal AI systems at my company over those years, including a multi-agent platform that ended up used across the company so I got promoted to senior staff along the way and ended up owning the AI architecture company wide. Work was good but the itch to build our own thing never went away. So we started Repowise on the side. It's an open source codebase intelligence layer for AI coding agents. Your agent stops greping the same file four times and actually understands your repo: dependency graph, git history, docs, architectural decisions, and a code health score etc etc We didnt do any outbounds just shipped it, wrote about it on our socials, and let people find it, been 3 months now. It grew on its own, 4.3k+ stars, around 60k downloads on PyPI. Then enterprises started reaching out, all inbound. That was the signal I needed, so I left my job to do this full time. Still early and still terrifying but so far the user response has been exciting, We had focused mainly on perfecting the product and little bit organic marketing, Time to give it our everything now Link: https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise If you like it, a star would be helpful. Contributions and issues are most welcome! Read more
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