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Pulsar, a browser-only GitHub PR monitor for engineering manager

Pulsar, a browser-only GitHub PR monitor for engineering manager

by stumpyfr·Mar 12, 2026·2 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidSlickSolve My Problem

Privacy-first PR dashboard that runs entirely in your browser, no accounts.

Strengths
  • •Client-side execution means zero data retention risk for sensitive repos.
  • •Built-in cycle time and merge rate analytics without external BI tools.
  • •Automatic PR grouping by status reduces manual triage overhead significantly.
Weaknesses
  • •Competes with GitHub's improved native views and established tools like LinearB.
  • •Reliant on GitHub API rate limits for large orgs with many repos.
Target Audience

Engineering managers, tech leads, developers managing multiple repos

Similar To

LinearB · GitHub Insights · Waypoint

Post Description

I built Pulsar to solve a daily annoyance: GitHub's PR view doesn't give you a clean at-a-glance picture of what needs attention across multiple repos.

Pulsar is a lightweight dashboard that runs entirely in your browser. You paste in a GitHub PAT and it never leaves your machine, no backend, no accounts.

It shows PRs grouped by status (needs attention, awaiting review, your PRs, drafts), with approval badges, CI pass/fail indicators, and a small analytics dashboard (cycle time, review workload, merge trends).

Live: https://pulsar.arkham-advisory.com Source: https://github.com/Arkham-Advisory/pulsar

Would love feedback, especially from teams with lots of repos.

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