devActivity

Engineering VPs, CTOs, delivery managers, and team leads often lack visibility into how software development actually happens day to day, making it hard to identify bottlenecks, run fair performance reviews, or know if projects are on track. Today this typically requires manual observation or ad hoc reporting, since raw GitHub activity like commits, pull requests, and reviews is not organized into usable metrics or insights. Without this, teams risk delayed delivery, unclear individual contributions, and performance reviews that lack data to back them up. The site frames this as a problem for customer-facing roles (PMs, TPMs), engineering teams (managers, leads), and C-level leadership alike, each needing different visibility into the same underlying activity.

devActivity installs as a free GitHub App and reads only Git metadata (activity type, timestamps, author information) without accessing source code, then turns that into performance reviews, retrospective insights, contribution and work quality analytics, and operational bottleneck alerts. It also includes gamification features such as XP, levels, challenges, achievements, and leaderboards based on commits, pull requests, code reviews, issues, and comments. The product is positioned as fully automated with no manual data entry, and it uses AI to generate insights and recommendations described as available with just two clicks. Setup is framed as fast, requiring only the GitHub App install to start seeing data.