Mentor by building
Codrlabs Open brings the standards of Codrlabs’ production work — what users expect, the constraints products run under, the bar reviews hold them to — into projects built in the open. Every pull request gets read line by line.
Codrlabs Open
The open side of Codrlabs. Software built in public, and the people we mentor through building it — no client, no invoice.
What we do here
Section titled “What we do here”Build in the open
Source, architecture decisions and the reasoning behind them are public, including the parts that turned out wrong. The reasoning is the teaching material.
Held to production standards
Work is mentored against the conditions Codrlabs’ own products face, so the habits people build here are the ones production work demands.
Keep it free to run
These are unpaid projects, so they are designed to cost almost nothing to operate — otherwise they quietly die when the enthusiasm does.
Projects
Section titled “Projects”VizablyPaste a URL, get a plain-language WCAG report with fix suggestions.
All projectsEvery repository in the organisation, active and archived.
How we work
Section titled “How we work”Distilled from building the projects above, including the parts that went wrong.
Engineering practicesName the layer before you edit the file. One issue per pull request. Reviews that teach.
AI assistanceOffload the mechanical, never the judgment. Grounded in the research.
Getting involved
Section titled “Getting involved”Pick an issue, open a pull request, expect a review that explains itself. Start with Contributing; the fine print sets out what this is and is not before you invest real time.
Questions: open@codrlabs.com · Discord