Community, OSS & Non-profits
Open Source Onboarding
Setup, build, first contribution, guided.
Setup, build, first contribution, all guided. Get new contributors past the first-PR cliff with hands-on labs.
Free forever. No credit card.
At a glance
- Category
- Community & OSS
- Best for
- OSS maintainers · Foundation teams · Platform projects
- Impact
- More first-time contributors making successful PRs
The challenge
Contributor count is flat. Every PR is from the same handful of people because the first-contribution experience is brutal: dev env, codebase, first issue, PR etiquette. Every step is a cliff.
How Stepwik solves it
Build, test, first PR as a guided lab
Convert CONTRIBUTING.md into an interactive lab covering setup, build, test, and contribution etiquette.
Free for community programs
Indie OSS maintainers and foundation projects use Stepwik's free tier to scale onboarding without a budget.
Capture maintainer hero hours
Capture explanations once as labs. Reuse forever instead of repeating in Discord and GitHub.
Track contributor pipeline
See where new contributors drop off at setup, build, or first PR, and fix the weak step.
What you'll ship
- Your first contribution lab (env setup, build, test, PR workflow)
- Architecture overview labs for new contributors
- Codebase tour labs (where things live, naming conventions)
- Release / maintainer onboarding paths
- Adopter quickstarts for downstream users
Get started
Sign up free
Convert your CONTRIBUTING.md into a Stepwik lab using the Chrome extension
Link it from your README
Watch new contributors finish what they start
Next step
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Start free and ship your first guided lab in minutes.