USE CASE:
Reading engineering depth for open source companies
What follows is the honest set of ways to get engineering depth on open source companies, including the ones that are not ours. Mamba Labs builds the Apify actors named here, so GitHub Organization Signal Scanner is something you run yourself against your own list of open source companies.
What is actually going wrong
Engineering depth for open source companies stops being a lookup and becomes a project. Start from this: open source companies have a company and a project, and only one of them has revenue, and engineering depth follows. Worth knowing about open source companies, since engineering depth inherits it: usage of the project says nothing about willingness to pay for the company. If you would rather try it than read about it, GitHub Organization Signal Scanner does engineering depth for open source companies today.
Traditional Search Tools
- The project's own repository, for open source companies. Free, and commit and issue activity is the honest measure of whether anyone is home.
- Their job board. Open engineering roles are the strongest available proxy and the listings are public. It tells you they are hiring engineers, not what those engineers do.
- BuiltWith or Wappalyzer. Shows what the website runs on, which is adjacent and not the same. A custom stack hints at engineering, and plenty of engineering teams ship on off the shelf tooling.
- Look for the public code. Search the company name on GitHub, check for a developer subdomain, read the engineering blog. Three minutes and the answer is usually obvious.
Doing it end to end
- Start with one of open source companies you already know, so a wrong engineering depth answer is obvious rather than plausible.
- Run GitHub Organization Signal Scanner across your list of open source companies, which carries 2 ready made setups for engineering depth.
- Read ten rows of engineering depth on open source companies by hand before you trust the rest of the list.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- GitHub Organization Signal Scanner2 preconfigured tasks on this page's job.