We built Forums because we got tired of the same loop: find an open source library, docs are outdated, end up digging through source code for hours.
Or chatting with claude and friends... just to see that they too have stale data due to their knowledge cutoff.
So we thought: what if you could just ask the repo directly?
Forums lets you ask any public GitHub repo a question and get source-backed answers. We clone the repo in a Vercel Sandbox, and the agent greps through the code, and finds real answers. No hallucinations. No stale docs. Just the source.
What you get:
Ask - Ask questions, AI explores the code, shows you exactly where things live
MCP server - Plug into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. Ask about external repos without leaving your editor
CLI + skill - Run commands against any public repo without cloning locally. And without signing in to Forums at all... let it rip.
We use it constantly. Integrating a new library? Debugging weird behavior? Faster than asking an LLM that was trained on a year-old version of the code.
Would love to hear what repos you try it on.
About Forums on Product Hunt
“AI-powered Q&A for GitHub repositories.”
Forums launched on Product Hunt on January 25th, 2026 and earned 275 upvotes and 30 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Ask questions about any repo and AI agents will clone, explore, and grep the source code to provide source-backed answers.
On the analytics side, Forums competes within Open Source, Developer Tools and GitHub — topics that collectively have 620.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Forums performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Forums?
Forums was hunted by fmerian. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Forums including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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We built Forums because we got tired of the same loop: find an open source library, docs are outdated, end up digging through source code for hours.
Or chatting with claude and friends... just to see that they too have stale data due to their knowledge cutoff.
So we thought: what if you could just ask the repo directly?
Forums lets you ask any public GitHub repo a question and get source-backed answers. We clone the repo in a Vercel Sandbox, and the agent greps through the code, and finds real answers. No hallucinations. No stale docs. Just the source.
What you get:
Ask - Ask questions, AI explores the code, shows you exactly where things live
MCP server - Plug into Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client. Ask about external repos without leaving your editor
CLI + skill - Run commands against any public repo without cloning locally. And without signing in to Forums at all... let it rip.
We use it constantly. Integrating a new library? Debugging weird behavior? Faster than asking an LLM that was trained on a year-old version of the code.
Would love to hear what repos you try it on.