The first fully open-source Developer Experience suite for GitHub-native teams.
GitHub-native project management, DORA metrics, an LLM knowledge base, a developer portal, and onboarding. One open suite for teams who already live in GitHub. Starting with sparQ Pulse. Built in the open, forever.
# self-host sparQ · Docker · SQLite · AGPL v3 $ git clone https://github.com/gosparq/sparq $ cd sparq $ docker compose up ✓ SQLite ready · zero external dependencies ✓ sparQ running at http://localhost:8000 # sparQ Flow · one-line install coming soon $ brew install sparq $ █
A good developer experience lets developers stay in the flow.
A good developer experience lets developers focus on what matters most: shipping more high-quality software, more frequently. It keeps them in flow, reduces cognitive load, and gives them continuous feedback. As a result they're satisfied, onboard faster, and aren't looking for their next role.
That's the mission. Everything in the sparQ suite serves it, and every product maps to one of the three pillars of developer experience: flow state, cognitive load, and feedback loops.
sparQ Pulse. Where we start.
The anchor product: Git-native project management. Projects, tasks, and team status derived from what's actually happening in your repo, not a field nobody updates.
sparQ Pulse
Git-native PM · projects, tasks, derived status, developer feedback
Start with Pulse. The rest is coming.
One open-source suite covering the developer experience stack, built GitHub-native under AGPL v3. Each product is an open-source alternative to the category leader, all under one roof.
sparQ Pulse
Tactical PM, derived from GitHub. Active work, standups, accountability, delivery visibility. Not roadmaps, not portfolios.
Alternative to Jira · Linear · GitHub Projects
sparQ Metrics
DORA, SPACE, DevEx, and AI-adoption signals. The language engineering leaders now budget for, for teams and execs.
Alternative to DX · LinearB · Jellyfish
sparQ Stage
Your engineering org on one stage. Services, owners, APIs, and docs auto-built from GitHub. The open developer portal without the platform team.
Alternative to Backstage · Port · Roadie
sparQ Knowledge
Organizational memory. Why a decision was made, who owns what, what happened last outage. An LLM wiki, not a doc graveyard.
Alternative to Confluence · Notion · Guru
sparQ Onboarding
New-hire ramp auto-generated from the catalog: people, services, architecture, a learning path. Time-to-first-PR as a metric.
Alternative to Guru · Confluence
sparQ Signals
Incidents, runbooks, and engineering scorecards tied to your services and on-call. Reliability the team can see.
Alternative to OpsLevel · PagerDuty
Building open.
Every decision, every milestone, every pivot. See the full changelog →
sparQ is now open source.
The repo is public, AGPL v3, built in the open. Star it, open the first PR, or drop your email for occasional product updates.
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