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Issue Duplicate Finder

Suggest likely duplicates when a new issue is opened.

Intermediate12h1 person17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Issue Duplicate Finder for open source maintainers in ~12h with 1 person. Stack: GitHub API + Embeddings + Node.js.

Why it wins: Maintainers love it.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Maintainers waste time triaging repeated issues.
02 · Solution
Embed issue titles and bodies, find nearest open and closed issues and post suggestions with similarity scores.
03 · Build
  1. 1Fetch issues
  2. 2Embed
  3. 3Search on new issue
  4. 4Comment
04 · Demo
Open an issue and see the bot link the duplicate.

MVP checklist

  • Embeddings
  • Similarity search
  • Bot comment
  • Label suggestions

Tech stack

TechRole
GitHub APIRepo + PR data
EmbeddingsSemantic similarity
Node.jsBackend runtime

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