gitdealflow

n8n community node for VC Deal Flow Signal — trending startup engineering signals, sector search, and breakout alerts powered by GitHub data across 20 sectors.

Package Information

Downloads: 1 weekly / 129 monthly
Latest Version: 0.1.0
Author: The Data Nerd

Available Nodes

GitDealFlow icon
GitDealFlow
Pull trending startup engineering signals from VC Deal Flow Signal. Free, no auth, weekly-refreshed across 20 sectors.

Documentation

n8n-nodes-gitdealflow

n8n community node for VC Deal Flow Signal — pipe trending startup engineering signals into any n8n workflow.

npm

What it does

Wraps the public API at https://signals.gitdealflow.com so you can pull weekly-updated startup engineering signals into Slack, Notion, Airtable, Google Sheets, Postgres, Pipedrive, HubSpot, or any of n8n's 400+ nodes — no auth, no rate limit gates.

Operations

  • Get Trending Startups — top 20 by engineering acceleration this period
  • Search by Sector — every tracked startup in one of 20 sectors, ranked
  • Find Startup by Name — look up a single startup's signal profile
  • Get Signals Summary — period metadata + sector counts + last update timestamp
  • Get Engineering Signals — every startup with a signal (deploy spike, infra buildout, framework migration), optional type filter

Install

In n8n (self-hosted or Cloud Pro+):

  1. Open Settings → Community Nodes
  2. Click Install
  3. Enter n8n-nodes-gitdealflow
  4. Agree to the risk warning and install

The GitDealFlow node will appear in the node panel. No credentials needed.

Example workflows

  1. Breakout Slack alerts — Schedule Trigger (weekly Mon) → GitDealFlow: Get Engineering Signals (filter: Deploy frequency spike) → Slack: Send Channel Message to #deal-flow.
  2. Watchlist auto-update in Notion — Schedule Trigger → GitDealFlow: Get Trending → Notion: Create Database Item for each.
  3. Sector deep-dive in Sheets — Manual Trigger → GitDealFlow: Search by Sector → Google Sheets: Append Row.
  4. HubSpot research auto-enrichment — GitDealFlow: Find Startup by Name → HubSpot: Create or Update Company.

Output fields

Field Type Notes
name string Display name
sector string Sector display name
stage string Pre-seed / Seed / Series A/B / Growth
geography string HQ region
commitVelocity14d int 14-day rolling commit count
commitVelocityChange string % change vs prior 14d
contributors int Unique contributors
contributorGrowth string % change
newRepos int New repos in last 30d
signalType string One of 4 signal categories
githubUrl url GitHub org URL
websiteUrl url Company homepage
linkedinUrl url LinkedIn page (when known)
profileUrl url gitdealflow.com profile page
citation string Attribution string for use in your workflows

License

MIT — free with attribution. Cite as VC Deal Flow Signal (signals.gitdealflow.com) per period.

Source

Built from kindrat86/vc-deal-flow-signal — public dataset, methodology at SSRN 6606558.

Issues

Open an issue at the repo above or email signal@gitdealflow.com.

Discussion