Copository Landing Page
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Building and sharing projects is a genuine passion for many, but every developer knows the most tedious part of a launching a project is creating technical documentation to support what they made. After launching, creating comprehensive documentation or a detailed README is time-consuming work that most developers building small projects are bound to skip. This creates a challenge for new adopters of the project, because without documentation, the technical and architectural decisions behind what was built remain hidden behind raw code. This leaves employers reviewing your portfolio, potential collaborators evaluating your codebase, and users trying to understand the project unable to appreciate the technical depth, design choices, and problem-solving that went into the project they are reviewing.
Copository is built to solve this exact problem, it is a tool that uses AI to automatically generate comprehensive documentation for any public GitHub repository with one click. The tool uses intelligent file preprocessing to pull essential files from a repository and leverages AI to create structured, readable documentation. Users can then export the documentation as a markdown file for easy editing, sharing, and integration. This is all done in under two minutes, cutting down what could be hours of manual work into a frictionless experience.
Copository is designed with the indie developer, student, and small teams in mind, allowing them to create quick and easy documentation without all the overhead of manual writing. Whether you are sharing a project you made in class, launching your open-source project or documenting a side project for your portfolio, Copository eliminates the need for developers to create time consuming documentation and focus on what they really enjoy, building.
I love software engineering, learning new tools, and building interesting projects. Each project I have worked on has been an incredible learning experience and has taught me so many essential software engineering skills. Whenever I build a project I think is worth sharing, the biggest challenge for me is creating documentation to share with its users. The tedious job of looking back at my code, trying to understand what I made and why I made it really demotivated me from wanting to share these projects at all.
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The Realization
I was spending time on thinking about “what would this look like in the documentation” rather than creating. I needed a solution that would let me focus on building and shipping without sacrificing the ability to showcase my technical work after launching.
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This wasn’t just another tutorial project I was building to add lines to my resume or to finish a project for class, I wanted to make something real and usable that solved a personal problem. Beyond the utility of the project, I wanted to learn the complete development process and actually deliver something fast, going from concept to production in 1-2 weeks. In the past, the majority of my projects would never get completed because I would spend weeks trying to perfect something minuscule rather then launching it, just to lose motivation for the project all together.