So my Rails project failed before it even started. I am not surprised, I know myself quite well. I think I don’t have enough frontend experience and that’s what blocks me from going forward.
I’d like to say I took a breather and stopped thinking about side-project ideas, until one suddenly appeared to me, but obviously I still had that thing at the back of my head that tried to generate new ideas amd another thing that validated if those are within my reach.
Well, there was an idea that suddenly popped into my mind yesterday. I was looking for some tool that would automatically generate a small statistics report on GitHub PRs in a repository of my choice. Most of these were paid products, some of them were too comllex and every tool I found required either registration or external intrastructure on which you run the tool. Then I found a GitHub Action that did almost what I wanted, but the stats were calculated per contributor, not per whole repo.
So I dug into GitHub Actions docs and wrote an action myself. The most important part (for me) is that I have already published it publicly!
This is the thing: simple-pr-stats
It’s very simple and needs lots of love, but let’s see if the fact that the project is live and publicly available will help me get unstuck.