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Profile templates, project README templates, AI coding prompts, and a 3-week checklist to build a GitHub that gets you hired.
24% of PM candidates have a GitHub. The latest PMs I placed at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta AI all had one.
This is the companion repo to How to Build a PM GitHub — the web's first guide on PM GitHub profiles.
pm-github-starter-kit/
├── templates/
│ ├── PROFILE-README.md # Your GitHub profile landing page
│ └── PROJECT-README.md # README template for every project you build
├── prompts/
│ ├── create-repo.md # Cursor/Claude Code: create a new repo
│ ├── build-project.md # Cursor/Claude Code: build your first agent
│ ├── commit-and-push.md # Cursor/Claude Code: save and publish
│ └── write-readme.md # Cursor/Claude Code: generate documentation
├── CHECKLIST.md # Your 3-week roadmap from zero to live
└── .gitignore # Python project defaults
- Fork this repo (click "Fork" in the top right)
- Follow CHECKLIST.md — your day-by-day plan
- Use the templates in
templates/for your profile and project READMEs - Copy the prompts in
prompts/into Cursor or Claude Code to build, commit, and document
| When | What | Use |
|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Set up your profile | templates/PROFILE-README.md |
| Day 2 | Build and ship your first project | prompts/build-project.md |
| Week 2 | Create your flagship project | prompts/create-repo.md |
| Week 3 | Polish docs, add screenshots, publish | prompts/write-readme.md |
See CHECKLIST.md for the full checklist with every step.
Based on analyzing profiles like Shubham Saboo's (78K+ stars, went from Dev Rel to Senior AI PM at Google):
- One flagship project that solves a real problem — not scattered toy repos
- Crystal clear positioning — your bio says what you build in one line
- Consistent contribution activity — recent activity beats total stars
- Strategic forks and contributions — contribute to tools in your target domain
- Documentation that shows product thinking — tradeoffs, decisions, learnings
- The portfolio effect — repos that tell a story together
The PROJECT-README.md template bakes in the sections hiring managers look for: Problem, Solution, Tradeoffs, and What I Learned.
- Copy-paste repos — if you can't explain why you chose OpenAI over Claude, you don't understand what you built
- Joke projects — a dad-joke chatbot proves nothing about PM skills
- Green square farming — hiring managers click the squares. Empty commits are an anti-signal
- Engineer cosplay — let AI write clean code. You focus on problem statements, UX, and documentation
- One-and-done — a dormant GitHub is worse than no GitHub. Build one small thing per week
- How to Build a PM GitHub — the full deep dive
- How to Land an AI PM Job
- AI Agent Guide for PMs
- Product Growth Newsletter
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Built by Aakash Gupta | Product Growth