So one of my least favourite (yet important) things to do at work is having to sit in backlog triage meetings. It’s a combination of having to deal with poorly written tasks, bugs without repro steps, lack of knowledge sharing within the team, and probably a whole bunch of other things.

One rather rudimentary source of this inefficiency was that bug/task creators would often not check if a similar task already exists. Some platforms have built-in tools to address duplicate issues. Linear introduced similar issue detection late last year which inspired me to build Triagster to do the same for GitHub Issues.

I was pleasantly surprised at how well it did on a several popular projects that use GitHub issues and would be keen to have more people try it out!

I’ve built both a standalone web app (https://www.triagster.com/app), that allows you to identify similar issues on on any public GitHub repository (for free!) and a GitHub App (https://github.com/apps/triagster) that comments on newly opened/updated GitHub issues if it finds any duplicates (This works on private repositories too).