Introducing Greening: Ship Beautiful Software, Fast

I built Greening because I was tired of boilerplating the same setup over and over again. GitHub Actions, README templates, virtualenvs, docs, deployment pipelines — it adds up fast. And even worse, it slows you down right at the moment you’re most excited to build something new.

Greening is an open source automation tool that eliminates the friction of starting, documenting, and shipping your next software project. Whether it’s a Python package, a portfolio project, or a polished GitHub Pages site, Greening handles the scaffolding, Git setup, documentation, and even optional Google Analytics integration — all in one command.

Why I Built It

As a solo dev, context-switching kills momentum. I found myself avoiding small projects simply because I didn’t want to spend an hour setting up the boilerplate. So I asked:

What if I could automate the launch of my projects just like I automate my tests, builds, and deployments?

Greening grew from that idea.

What It Does

• 📁 greening init generates a default YAML for configuring your project.
• 📁 greening new creates a new project, scaffolds a clean structure, and optionally sets up Git, virtual environments, and GitHub remotes.
• 📊 Google Analytics integration? Just drop your tag into the config, and you’re done.
• ⚙️ Customizable YAML-based config with opinionated defaults that get out of your way.

Philosophy

Greening is built on a few key ideas:

• Ship fast. Don’t let tooling slow down your ideas.
• Repeatable and scalable. Make every project look clean and polished from day one.
• Beautiful by default. Your software deserves a good first impression.
• Automation-first. If you’ve done it more than twice, Greening should probably do it for you.

What’s Next

I’m working toward a plugin-based ecosystem so you can extend Greening to match your exact workflow. Want to auto-generate CHANGELOGs? Autodoc your Python code? Auto-post releases to social media? That’s where we’re headed.

You can check out the project on GitHub here:
👉 https://github.com/chris-greening/greening