diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1345150..133233d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ available [on GitHub][2].
   Adds a `--path` option to the `default-config` command to print
   default config location intead
   (by [@zixuanzhang-x][zixuanzhang-x])
+* [#128](/~https://github.com/chshersh/tool-sync/issues/128)
+  Adds new error message RepoError::NotFound when fetch_release_info
+  returns 404
+  (by [@crudiedo][crudiedo])
 
 ### Fixed
 
diff --git a/src/model.rs b/src/model.rs
index ccab5fd..7d05757 100644
--- a/src/model.rs
+++ b/src/model.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pub mod asset_name;
 pub mod os;
 pub mod release;
+pub mod repo;
 pub mod tool;
diff --git a/src/model/repo.rs b/src/model/repo.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec6eceb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/model/repo.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+use crate::model::tool::ToolInfoTag;
+use std::fmt::{Display, Formatter};
+
+#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum RepoError {
+    /// Either repository or tag is not found due to misconfiguration
+    NotFound {
+        owner: String,
+        repo: String,
+        tag: ToolInfoTag,
+    },
+}
+
+impl Display for RepoError {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<'_>) -> std::fmt::Result {
+        match self {
+            RepoError::NotFound { owner, repo, tag } => match tag {
+                ToolInfoTag::Latest => {
+                    write!(f, "The {owner}/{repo} doesn't exist or has no releases.")
+                }
+                _ => write!(
+                    f,
+                    "The {owner}/{repo} doesn't exist or {tag} was not found.",
+                    tag = tag.to_str_version()
+                ),
+            },
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/sync/prefetch.rs b/src/sync/prefetch.rs
index 78d6793..3580c7b 100644
--- a/src/sync/prefetch.rs
+++ b/src/sync/prefetch.rs
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ use super::configure::configure_tool;
 use crate::config::schema::ConfigAsset;
 use crate::infra::client::Client;
 use crate::model::release::AssetError;
+use crate::model::repo::RepoError;
 use crate::model::tool::{Tool, ToolAsset};
 
 const PREFETCH: Emoji<'_, '_> = Emoji("🔄 ", "-> ");
@@ -133,7 +134,18 @@ fn prefetch_tool(
 
             match client.fetch_release_info() {
                 Err(e) => {
-                    prefetch_progress.unexpected_err_msg(tool_name, e);
+                    if let Some(ureq::Error::Status(404, _)) = e.downcast_ref::<ureq::Error>() {
+                        prefetch_progress.unexpected_err_msg(
+                            tool_name,
+                            RepoError::NotFound {
+                                owner: tool_info.owner,
+                                repo: tool_info.repo,
+                                tag: tool_info.tag,
+                            },
+                        );
+                    } else {
+                        prefetch_progress.unexpected_err_msg(tool_name, e);
+                    }
                     // do some other processing
                     prefetch_progress.update_message(already_completed);
                     None