The Unmerged: every repo is a record of what didn't get built
What I Built The Unmerged reads a public repository's history, finds the work that was abandoned in it, and has an open-weight model — running inside your browser tab — say what each piece of that work was trying to do. A repository is read as a record of what got built. It is equally a record of what didn't, and that half never gets read. There is a pull request somebody wrote, pushed, and…
The Unmerged is a web application that explores the hidden stories within a public repository's history. It analyzes the data to uncover abandoned pull requests, forsaken branches and reverted commits that are never merged into the main line. The application uses an open-weight language model running inside a browser tab to interpret the abandoned work and presents the findings in an easy-to-understand way.
The project demonstrates the value of open innovation, as it would not be possible to create without the accessible GitHub API.
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