Keep the Why
Keep the Why is the why layer of repo-native project memory
Details
- External ID
- 1253464
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Cookie — Keep the good bits.
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 19, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Developer Tools, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 21, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
The why layer of repo-native project memory: the reasoning behind a codebase as Markdown in the repo, versioned by Git, for coding agents and humans, so nothing rejected is proposed twice.
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- decision tracking and project memory for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Git-backed documentation tool or CLI/VS Code extension that writes Markdown files documenting architectural decisions (ADRs) inside a repository.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 82 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 83 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 292 days after the earliest competitor.
- An always-fresh memory that learns your repo, so agents stop re-reading · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Recall · hn · 2026-06-21 · 138 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CodeYam Memory · hn · 2026-03-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Syngraphe · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Enforcing time-bounded technical debt with Git history · hn · 2026-01-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Limn · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Layerfs · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Guidefold · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
Other launches for this product
Same idea, different domain
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