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Dev tools · April 26, 2014

Hound

Code review tool for GitHub pull requests

Hound launched on April 26, 2014 with 89 votes, #191 of 1,174 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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What it does

Hound is the GitHub code review tool the thoughtbot team wanted but never got, so they built it. You can use it too. Now checking Ruby, JS, Swift, CoffeeScript, Go, Elixir and more.

Hound comments on code quality and style issues, allowing you and your team to better review and maintain a clean codebase. Hound integrates with your existing workflow by reviewing and commenting on code the moment a GitHub pull request is opened or updated. Automated code review with Hound gives developers more time to give the kind of review that humans are best at giving. Hound’s default style guides build upon accepted industry standards and are the result of years of utilization in software projects at thoughtbot . Have your own style guide or need to modify the default? Hound provides the ability to customize your guides to best suit your team’s needs. Don’t worry, we get it. Our…from houndci.com

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