codebackstory — turn your git history into a hand-drawn story

How it works

Four steps from a `git log` to a printable backstory page. No prose-writing required — but if you want to edit the cast, that's exactly where you come in.

1

Sign in with GitHub

One click. We use BetterAuth + GitHub OAuth. We never see your password, only the scopes you grant.

2

Pick a codebase

Choose any repo you can read. We scan commits, parse authors plus @mentions in commit messages, and surface the cast.

3

Edit the cast

Rename actors, add descriptions, throw in clients or stakeholders who never committed code. Your call.

4

Render & download

We generate the cartoons, weave them into the page, and hand you HTML + a clean print-ready PDF. Images never split across pages.

What a backstory looks like

The house style — cream paper, hand-cursive titles, Mad-magazine palette, Sergio-Aragonés cartoon panels per phase, a living Gantt at the top. Below are sketched previews of the page shape; real backstories drop in your actors, your phases, your cartoons.

A client engagement log ~6 phases · ~12 cartoon panels · living Gantt

Tells the whole arc from kickoff to ship in one printable page.

An open-source project authors + top contributors · narrative arc

Tells the story of how your maintainers, contributors, and big features came to be.

A solo indie ship one author · phases by milestone

A backstory you can post on your launch page, send to investors, or just keep for yourself.

Pricing

One-time charge per codebase, priced by commit count. You see the tier after the scan, before you pay. Cartoons and prose generation are bundled — no upcharges, no metered surprises.

Sketch

$20

up to 50 commits