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Launch Playbook

Show HN Post

Title: Show HN: Maintainer Shield – One GitHub Action to kill AI slop PRs, triage issues, and score contributors

Text: Hi HN,

I built Maintainer Shield because I watched the AI slop crisis crush maintainers I respect. Coolify gets 120+ slop PRs/month. cURL shut down its bug bounty. Godot's maintainers called it "draining and demoralizing." Only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs is legitimate.

The existing tools are fragmented — one tool for slop detection (regex-only), another for issue triage, another for author scoring. Maintainers shouldn't need 3 tools for one problem.

Maintainer Shield is a single GitHub Action that:

  • Runs 15 checks on every PR (AI language patterns, commit timing, submission speed, author volume, file analysis)
  • Scores contributor reputation 0-100 (account age, merge history, profile completeness)
  • Auto-triages issues (bug/feature/question/docs, duplicate detection)
  • Configurable: comment, label, or auto-close. Your rules.
  • Collaborators auto-exempt. Zero false positives on your team.

It's free, MIT licensed, and runs on itself (dogfooding).

https://github.com/ShipItAndPray/maintainer-shield

I'd love feedback from other maintainers. What checks would you add? What would make you install this today?

Twitter/X Post

Open source maintainers are drowning in AI slop.

120+ slop PRs/month on popular repos. cURL shut down bug bounty. Godot says "demoralizing."

I built Maintainer Shield — one GitHub Action that:

  • Kills slop PRs (15 checks)
  • Auto-triages issues
  • Scores contributor reputation

Free. MIT. 5 lines to install.

github.com/ShipItAndPray/maintainer-shield

Reddit Posts

r/programming

Title: I built a GitHub Action that fights AI slop PRs for open source maintainers

r/opensource

Title: After watching AI slop crush maintainers I respect, I built Maintainer Shield — slop detection + issue triage + reputation scoring in one action

r/github

Title: GitHub Action: Detect AI slop PRs, auto-triage issues, score contributor reputation — all in one workflow

Dev.to Post Title

"I Built Maintainer Shield Because Open Source Maintainers Deserve Better Than AI Slop"

Key Distribution Channels (in order)

  1. Show HN — Post Tuesday-Thursday, 9-11am PT
  2. Twitter/X — Tag @gaborcselle (GitHub product), @gaborjkl, @jeffgeerling, @bagaborian
  3. Reddit — r/programming, r/opensource, r/github, r/devops
  4. Dev.to — Full tutorial post
  5. GitHub Discussions — Comment on github/community Discussion #185387
  6. Awesome Lists — Submit to awesome-github-actions, awesome-oss, awesome-maintainers
  7. Discord — Post in major OSS project Discords (Godot, Coolify, etc.)

Timing

Best days: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday Best time: 9-11am Pacific (when HN/Reddit peak) Avoid: Fridays, weekends, holidays

After Launch

  • Star the repo yourself (bootstrap first star)
  • Respond to EVERY comment within 1 hour
  • Ship fixes for any feedback within 24 hours
  • Create a v0.1.0 release tag after initial feedback