Keep the Why
Keep the Why is the why layer of repo-native project memory
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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.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: developer productivity and workflow management · 157 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
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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 : 190 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #56 of 191 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
- DIP · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- An always-fresh memory that learns your repo, so agents stop re-reading · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- SupraCortex · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Recall · hn · 2026-06-21 · 138 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- CodeYam Memory · hn · 2026-03-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- RepoMemory · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Syngraphe · ph · 2026-09-14 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Enforcing time-bounded technical debt with Git history · hn · 2026-01-11 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
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