How do I get startups to use my open-code project?
ErezShahaf Thursday, March 05, 2026I recently noticed that some easy tickets I get during my day job can be solved with a single prompt, so I built a simple open-code orchestration system between Jiran, Coding agents (cursor/claude), and github.
The goal is to automate the easy tickets that every decent engineer will solve in roughly the same way, and let us just accept a ready PR.
Now I'm stuck on a different problem: how do you get the first real startups to actually try an open source tool like this?
I have posted about my tool in X, reddit, and here. I have received stars and even some positive comments so it does seem like there is some interest in the idea, but AFAIK there isn't a startup that actually uses it.
I'm really not sure how to go about it, I'm not trying to make money from it, so I don't want to start cold approaching companies - but I like building stuff in my spare time and would have loved to see it really being used by startups.
How do I do that?
Repo if anyone is curious: https://github.com/ErezShahaf/Anabranch