Public sources
GitHub Octoverse: more than 180 million developers on GitHub, 28 October 2025.
OpenAI release notes: workspace agents generally available, May 2026.
TechCrunch: Lovable passed $600M in annualised revenue, 24 September 2026.
OpenAI help centre: ChatGPT Space, September 2026.
mind-alike.com: our headline and audience groups, October 2026.
gitring documentation, launch version (README, decisions and site messaging), read 28 October 2026.
Competitors’ public pages, checked October 2026.
Market size
SlashData, 36.5 million professional developers, early 2025. JetBrains Data Playground, about 20.8 million, 2025.
JetBrains Research: 90% use AI coding agents weekly and 68% daily, 18 August 2026; about 22% let agents write over 80% of their code, 26 August 2026.
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026: 10.5% work alone and 16.8% in companies under 20, 6 October 2026.
Microsoft FY26 Q2 earnings call: over 4.7 million paid Copilot subscribers, 28 January 2026.
Our own records
Founders: 219 on the waitlist, all organic, no users and no revenue; company, team, history and gitring, 31 October 2026.
Our product, architecture and engineering specifications, October 2026.
Founders: the round, use of funds and runway, 17 October 2026, confirmed 1 November 2026; NVIDIA Inception Capital Connect, approved, 1 November 2026.
Founders’ plan: launch dates, targets, planned prices (custom for larger teams), cost model and distribution, 28 October 2026.
Our requirements: match targets, set before the build, October 2026.
gitring design file: product screens, October 2026.