SupportPages for Open Source: Public Repo Support
SupportPages now supports public GitHub repositories. Generate a full help centre for any open-source project from its code, with no GitHub App install.
You can now point SupportPages at any public GitHub repository. No GitHub App to install, no permissions dance - paste the repo, get a help centre.
Why this matters
Open-source projects have a documentation problem that's worse than SaaS's, not better. The code is often brilliant. The README is usually decent. But end-user documentation - the "how do I actually use this thing" layer for people who will never read the source - is chronically missing, because nobody's on the hook for it and the people capable of writing it would rather be writing code.
The irony is that open source is the easiest case for generated docs. The entire codebase is public. There's nothing to negotiate access to. The only thing missing was a tool that would read it and do the work.
Proof, not promises
We've been using this internally for a while, and it's how our example help centres are built. The help centres for WordPress, Cal.com, DocuSeal, and Plausible were each generated from the project's public code - sections, articles, screenshots, all of it. No hand-written content, no insider knowledge, just the repository.
I keep these public because "AI writes your docs" is the kind of claim that deserves inspectable evidence. Click through them and judge the output yourself.
Who this unlocks
- Maintainers who want end-user docs without burning contributor goodwill on doc chores
- Companies building on open source - if you run a hosted or forked version of an OSS tool, you can give your users a proper help centre for it
- Anyone evaluating SupportPages - try it on a public repo you know well before connecting anything private
That last one matters to me. The best way to judge whether SupportPages understands code is to watch it document a codebase where you already know where the bodies are buried.
Same rules as always: read-only, nothing stored, analysis runs in a throwaway sandbox. Public repos don't get looser handling just because the code is public.
We're onboarding design partners ahead of launch. Take a look at supportpages.io and get in touch.
About the Author
Simon Moxon has been building SaaS companies since 2009. He's scaled teams to 20+ people, hit £2m ARR, and learned most of the lessons the hard way. Now he's building SupportPages.io - help docs that write themselves when you ship code. He writes about what's changed in SaaS and what hasn't.