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We work with organizations of all sizes to design, develop, and grow their web and mobile products.
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Welcome to thoughtbot on GitHub!

thoughtbot is your expert partner for product design and development. We help our clients lead the way through better products, faster teams, and stronger growth.

thoughtbot is a global consultancy renowned for our community contributions and client outcomes. We use an agile, human-centered strategy for web and mobile products at every stage of the product lifecycle. Since 2003, we have produced high-quality products for over 1,000 clients. We are proud to leave every project with a stronger team and improved processes.

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Podcasts

473: Mental models for browsers

590: Making AI work for users with Louis Gutierrez

472: What is the skill in software development?

589: Behind the Scenes at thoughtbot - Our work setups

471: New Hosts Join the Show

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  2. administrate administrate Public

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  3. suspenders suspenders Public

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  4. superglue superglue Public

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  5. fishery fishery Public

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  6. capybara_accessibility_audit capybara_accessibility_audit Public

    Accessibility tooling for Capybara

    Ruby 72 7

Repositories

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  • yuri-ita Public

    Create powerful interfaces for filtering, searching, and sorting collections of items.

    thoughtbot/yuri-ita’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 89 MIT 5 7 9 Updated Sep 9, 2025
  • .github Public
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    Ruby 2 1 0 0 Updated Sep 9, 2025
  • top_secret Public

    Filter sensitive information from free text before sending it to external services or APIs, such as chatbots and LLMs.

    thoughtbot/top_secret’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 243 MIT 3 0 3 Updated Sep 9, 2025
  • terraform-aws-backup Public
    thoughtbot/terraform-aws-backup’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 8 MIT 3 1 2 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • administrate Public

    A Rails engine that helps you put together a super-flexible admin dashboard.

    thoughtbot/administrate’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 5,970 MIT 1,146 97 (1 issue needs help) 40 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • data_customs Public

    A simple gem to help you perform data migrations in your Rails app.

    thoughtbot/data_customs’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 2 MIT 1 3 (3 issues need help) 0 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • roux Public

    A boilerplate of pre-defined native CSS styling

    thoughtbot/roux’s past year of commit activity
    CSS 1 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • appraisal Public

    A Ruby library for testing your library against different versions of dependencies.

    thoughtbot/appraisal’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 1,304 MIT 112 10 2 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • clearance Public

    Rails authentication with email & password.

    thoughtbot/clearance’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 3,731 MIT 468 26 5 Updated Sep 8, 2025
  • flightdeck Public

    Terraform modules for rapidly building production-grade Kubernetes clusters following SRE practices.

    thoughtbot/flightdeck’s past year of commit activity
    HCL 95 MIT 12 23 (1 issue needs help) 13 Updated Sep 7, 2025
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