SlopTeacher

Producing a working codebase does not necessarily mean understanding how it works. SlopTeacher assesses understanding of a public GitHub repository and returns a repository-grounded diagnostic.

Code production and ownership differ, technical confidence needs evidence, interview prep lacks personal context, and knowledge gaps are hard to spot alone.

Hypotheses to validate about overestimated understanding, interview prep gaps, need for objective evidence, deeper comprehension, and actionable feedback. No formal validation yet.

Planned discovery research: objectives, questions, participants, analysis framework, assumptions A1-A8, success criteria, and limitations. Not yet completed.

Landscape across four adjacent categories, seven competitor profiles, a directional feature matrix, competitive findings, and positioning hypotheses.

Secondary signals from Stack Overflow, Octoverse, and HackerRank; segments and beachhead, JTBD hypotheses, sizing caveats, limitations, and claims to avoid.

Early-career and interview-prep developers first, then independents, unfamiliar-repo contributors, mentors, and interviewers.

Candidate JTBD statements for core assessment, interview prep, self-assessment, and sharing, plus critical questions to validate in interviews.

Ownership gap over code production; compete on structured assessment; interview-prep beachhead; badge unproven; primary research still needed.

Enable developers to evaluate and demonstrate their understanding of a codebase through repository-specific assessments, emphasizing understanding over producing code.

Assess understanding not authorship; ground quizzes in the repo; make results actionable; be transparent about uncertainty; keep sharing optional; protect trust with clear boundaries.

Measurement areas: activation, assessment quality, and continued value. Quantitative targets and internal performance data are not disclosed.

Public GitHub ingest with compact snapshot, quiz length and difficulty options, text interview with pass / pending / slop, diagnostic report, optional badge, and auth.

Public repos only, auth required, daily usage limits for sessions and model calls, and badges record a session result rather than authorship or competence.

MVP prioritized the core assessment journey; features outside that path were deferred to keep the product focused and operable.

Shipped MVP v1.1.0: marketing site, authenticated assessments on public GitHub repositories, diagnostic report, and optional shareable badge and result page. The product is live.

Site map across marketing pages, the signed-in app (home, active session, sidebar), and the public badge share surface.

Landing through interview, then results with or without a badge depending on whether the full test was finished.

Locked product choices: landing refresh, GitHub paste CTA, bento results, optional README badges, and shipping UI on the testing branch first.

Instead of a Figma prototype, we used an Agentic AI approach and deployed into testing branches before production for faster development.

The live SlopTeacher product is available at slopteacher.com.