Turn GitHub Stars into Sales Prospects
Your repo gets a star? Salesforce automatically creates a prospect account. You never miss engaged users.
Trigger
New Stargazer Added
Triggers when a new user stars a GitHub repository. Emits an event for each new stargazer detected on the monitored repository.
Action
Create account
Creates a new account in salesforce with the specified information.
Why this helps
Hundreds of developers star your repository, indicating strong interest. But their interest goes untracked. You have no way to reach them, nurture them, or convert them into paying customers. The engagement signal is lost.
- Every GitHub star creates a trackable account in Salesforce
- Build a prospect list of engaged users
- Enable outreach to interested community members
- Turn engagement signals into business opportunities
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect GitHub and Salesforce to Notis.
- 2Create an automation named 'Stars to Accounts'.
- 3Set the prompt to: 'When a new user stars the GitHub repository, create an account in Salesforce with a placeholder name based on their GitHub username and their GitHub profile URL in the account description. Tag them as "github-star".'
- 4Select 'GitHub: New Stargazer Added' as the trigger.
- 5Test by starring your repository from another account.
Questions about this workflow
This will create hundreds of accounts. Is that good practice?
Yes, if you want to track prospect interest. Notis tags them all with 'github-star' so you can segment and nurture them with targeted campaigns.
Can I enrich these accounts with additional data?
Notis captures what GitHub provides. You can enrich manually later, or ask Notis to include GitHub location and follower count if available.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link GitHub to Salesforce. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
GitHub triggers
Salesforce actions
New Workflow Artifact Created
Triggers when a new workflow artifact is created in a GitHub repository. Monitors for newly created GitHub Actions workflow artifacts. Optionally filters by artifact name to restrict monitoring to specific artifacts.
Create Salesforce Account
Deprecated: creates a new salesforce account using a json post request, requiring 'name'; specific fields (e.g., custom, dunsnumber) may have org-level prerequisites.
Branch Changed
Triggers when a GitHub branch changes. Monitors a specific branch for: - New commits pushed (head commit SHA changes) - Protection status toggled (branch becomes protected or unprotected) - Protection settings changed, including: required status checks and their enforcement level, admin enforcement, required pull request reviews (dismiss stale reviews, code owner reviews, approving review count, last push approval), required linear history, force push allowance, deletion allowance, conversation resolution, branch locking, and fork syncing.
Add contact to campaign
Adds a contact to a campaign by creating a campaignmember record, allowing you to track campaign engagement.
New Branch Created
Triggers when a new branch is created in a GitHub repository. Detects newly created branches. Deleted branches do not fire events.
Add lead to campaign
Adds a lead to a campaign by creating a campaignmember record, allowing you to track campaign engagement.
Check Run Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a specific GitHub check run changes its status or conclusion. Monitors a single check run for changes to: status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.), conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required), started_at, and completed_at.
Add product to opportunity
Adds a product (line item) to an opportunity. the product must exist in a pricebook entry that's associated with the opportunity's pricebook.
Check Suite Status / Conclusion Changed
Triggers when a GitHub check suite changes its status or conclusion for a given ref. Monitors all check suites associated with a git reference (branch, tag, or commit SHA) for changes to status (queued, in_progress, completed, etc.) and conclusion (success, failure, neutral, cancelled, skipped, timed_out, action_required, startup_failure, stale). Optionally filters by GitHub App ID.
Apply lead assignment rules
Applies configured lead assignment rules to a specific lead, automatically routing it to the appropriate owner based on your organization's rules.
New Code Scanning Alert Created
Triggers when a new code scanning alert is created in a repository. Fires an event for each newly created code scanning alert detected in the configured repository. Alerts can be filtered by Git reference, scanning tool, state, and severity. The payload includes the alert number, rule details, tool information, state, severity, and the location of the most recent instance.
Associate contact to account
Associates a contact with an account by updating the contact's accountid field.
New Repository Collaborator Added
Triggers when a new collaborator is added to a GitHub repository. Monitors the full list of collaborators on a repository and fires an event for each newly added collaborator. The payload includes the collaborator's GitHub username, account ID, profile URL, avatar URL, permission flags (pull, triage, push, maintain, admin), and assigned role name.
Clone opportunity with products
Clones an opportunity and optionally its products (line items). creates a new opportunity with the same field values and products as the original.
Commit Event
Triggered when a new commit is pushed to a repository.
Clone record
Creates a copy of an existing salesforce record by reading its data, removing system fields, and creating a new record. optionally apply field updates to the clone.
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