Who
I ship software for a living. The repo is where the truth should live. It usually does not.
Code sits in GitHub. Launch posts sit in a thread that dies in three days. Design decisions live as screenshots in Slack. Hiring signal is a PDF from last year. CI cost hides in a vendor dashboard. AI review output never becomes part of the project graph.
uncap.us is for maintainers and operators who want that whole graph attached to the repository — not for people who need another place to perform. If you already think in owner/repo, org routes, and what shipped this week, you are the room.
I also wrote the manifesto out loud: open source should not mean every byte is public every minute. Commits and branches are a bad primary primitive. Worktrees as we inherited them are an abomination. Agents and humans deserve a VFS that tracks work as it happens.
What
I built a repo-native social layer. Live site: www.uncap.us. App version in package.json: 0.2.0. Private product repo under HurleyUS.
README-first repo pages at /:owner/:repo. Organizations that own repos. Issues and PRs. Explore. Dashboard. A Lens feed for launches, releases, jobs, design updates, and links tied to the project (Lens replaced the earlier wall naming). Pricing and docs. A downloadable Uncap CLI (UnGit) with device-flow login.
Origin sync connects public Git origins (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea), caches shape, and reads files on demand. Native Uncap-hosted Git remotes are a separate rollout; empty states say that out loud instead of faking clone URLs.
The CLI is the manifesto as a tool. uncap watch auto-tracks. Snapshots and virtual worktrees. Visibility flags for private/staging/public artifacts. Maintainer commands cover issues, pull requests, and continuous integration.
Backend is Convex with Clerk auth.
Stack at HEAD includes TanStack Start, Vite, pnpm, React 19, Convex, Clerk. Production deploys as tanstack-start on Vercel. That replaced an earlier Next.js plus Bun era; README badges lag the real stack.
Where
Production is public even though the GitHub repo is private: www.uncap.us. Health at /api/health reports Clerk, Convex, PostHog, Resend, Sentry, and Stripe ready, with origin imports, native Git refs capability flags, and production telemetry enabled — verified 2026-09-08.
Local clone on this machine: /home/michael/Projects/uncap.us @ ce53c96. CLI install assets under /cli. Brand kit under public/ including the u mark.
The audience sits next to maintainers who already connect forges, and builders who read MANIFESTO.md before the pricing page.
When
2026-01-08. Init: Next.js, Convex, Tailwind. Early product was closer to a job-seeker platform loop than a forge.
2026-02. Schema, Clerk auth, onboarding, job matching, then a hard security and auth hardening pass.
2026-05-04 to 06. Rebuild as a social forge. Real services. Auth and repository creation.
2026-05-14 to 15. Launch pack: screenshots, announcement drafts, runbook, health gates. Target drop May 15, 8:00 AM ET. Positioning locked.
2026-06-09 to 12. Full app migration across nine phases. Legacy Next tree deleted. Downloadable CLI with device auth. Origin sync and Convex file cache. GTM integrations at the code layer.
2026-06-13 to 16. Terminology: lens and repo. Marketing docs and signed-out home. Commit graph redesign. u mark lands in the brand set.
2026-08-08. X-Robots-Tag set to index, follow on Vercel.
2026-08-30 to 31. Signed-out landing redesigned like raycast.com. Command palette hero. Your shortcut to shipped work. Mobile signup overflow fixed. Duplicate Log in removed. AI-slop highlight pill removed. HEAD ce53c96. 338 commits from init to that tip.
Why
Git hosts optimized for storing files. The work I actually do spills sideways — launches, design versions, hiring signal, review output, deploy state. I wanted the repository to be the hub that holds that graph without turning the feed into performative noise.
I also wanted source control primitives that match how I work now: auto-tracking instead of nagging myself to commit, granular visibility instead of all-or-nothing public, virtual worktrees instead of copying trees by hand for agents.
So uncap.us is live with origin-aware repo pages, Lens, orgs, and a CLI on the site. Native hosted remotes are still a rollout, not a pretend clone button. The frame under the product changed once while shipping stayed continuous.
Eight months. Three product shapes. One domain. The file cabinet was never going to grow the graph I needed.