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Products that do what Open-source+local Cursor for code review (use this instead of GitHub) does
Hey again HN. Isaac and I originally released a voice-first code review tool, but have since open-sourced it and turned it into just a better way to review your and your team's Github PRs. Main things we've heard that make code reviews slower are: 1) PRs are too big and overwhelming 2) Need to jump around to find the right context and relevant code 3) Need to spend time thinking (should not be a thing since AI exists), and writing comments What we built to address these: 1) PRs are split up into sub-PRs without needing to actually split them up and stack them yourself -> Automatically done…
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2016 · text.sourcegraph.com
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Hi Everyone, I made an open-source GitHub bot that automatically submits a detailed line-by-line code review instantly on any new PR. It's just one-click install to get started. You can host your own bot if you'd like. Open for feedback. thanks!
2024 · github.com
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2021 · codeapprove.com
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I’ve spent the last 2.5 months building a product that runs LLM-powered code reviews on my pull requests — and I just launched it. The tool is built specifically for solo developers. You install it on your repo, trigger a scan by creating a pull request, and it leaves structured review comments using OpenAI under the hood. Funnily enough, I used the dev version of this app to review its own pull requests while building it. It helped me spot bugs, simplify structure, and keep quality high — all with minimal need for another human in the loop. Things I want to try out in the next months : -…
2025 · codii.dev
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Prepend any Github PR URL with `makesense` to get a - quick review for all sorts of issues (cleanly designed issue explorer) - summary of changes in concise slide deck to grasp the essence of changes - a 5 question quiz on the changes to make sure there's "cognitive coverage" of the change There's also a handy bookmarklet using which you can trigger a review for any publicly accessible Github PR Feedback welcome
Jul 2026 · makesensegithub.com
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A few friends and I noticed that many PRs are easier/quicker to review if the changes are reviewed in some order other than alphabetical by filename (which is the default in Github). So, we'd often write our PR descriptions to include a suggested review order: "review file xyz.py first, then abc.js, then foo.rs". We did this often enough that we built a chrome extension that lets us reorder diffs in the Github PR UI rather than needing to type out the suggested order in the description. Anecdotally, we've noticed that using this tool to reordering diffs makes it much easier for…
2024 · github.com
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2014 · hangouts.readthesource.io
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Create a review as you would on pastebin, then any line in a review can be clicked to leave a comment. Comments appear under the line they reference and can be hidden by clicking the red tabs on the left or right. You can optionally toggle all comments by clicking the speech bubble at the top of the review. You don't have to have an account to create a review or leave a comment. I plan on adding multi-file reviews as well as version control access in the next few releases. After that I plan on making some IDE plugins to allow users to send code directly to the site via their IDE. Let me know…
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2015 · chrome.google.com
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This week we released the Kodus CLI. It took a bit longer than we expected to ship. The reason was simple: there are already many ways to run reviews locally today. IDEs, extensions, terminal commands, agents inside the editor. So building “just another AI CLI” didn’t seem like a good idea. The question that guided the project was different: how can we bring the quality of PR reviews to the moment when the code is still being written? Today the CLI does two main things. The first is running local reviews using the same context we use in PRs. The goal was to avoid that shallow review that…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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2017 · app.assignees.io
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2016 · cadencebot.com
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Hey HN. We're Mus and Isaac - creators of LightLayer. We've been outputting a ton more code since using agentic dev tools. It's been great. But we're starting to see a new bottleneck emerge that's no longer writing the actual code: reviewing code. We’d love to hear from folks here if they’re feeling the inertia of code reviews a lot more these days with the surge in development velocity. For us, it was the reason we decided to pivot what we were working on before, and go full-time on building a workspace aimed at bringing the code review experience up to speed for the AI era. To be clear:…
2025 · lightlayer.dev
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Hey HN, Over the last year, I’ve reviewed more than 1000 code changes. Most of the time was spent catching obvious mistakes rather than debating complex design decisions. If we estimate ~10 minutes per review, that’s 160+ hours spent reviewing code in just one year. So I thought: could I get some of that time back using LLMs? That's why I spent the last few weekends building Presubmit.ai, an open-source AI reviewer that runs as a Github Action right when you open a Pull Request. The results so far are promising: I estimate it can reduce the review time by 50%, which in my case would mean I…
2024 · github.com
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After years of struggling with onboarding to new projects, I got tired of spending weeks just trying to grasp the basics of a codebase. The README rarely tells the whole story, and "just read the code" isn't practical for large repos. I built RepoIQ to create personalized learning paths through any GitHub repository. It analyzes the codebase structure, identifies key components, and creates a step-by-step guide tailored to your learning needs.
2025 · repoiq.be
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We've been having a hard time getting feedback on our docs. Some people post GitHub issues or send us pull requests, but we've heard that the friction is too great for little things like typos, etc. We thought Vercel's preview might be a decent solution to lower the friction for people with Vercel accounts. Vercel injects a code bundle into the site, similar to a browser extension, automatically setting up a commenting system and UI for us. If you want to see how it looks, check it out here: https://docs.plasmo.com/
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Code review that knows what your PR breaks in other repos
11d ago · contextgoblin.com
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