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PullRequest
Company blog · pullrequest.com/blogprogrammingcareer
PullRequest is the company blog at pullrequest.com, writing about programming and career. Since 2017, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 34 times, most often “Code Review as a Service”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mostly link pullrequest.com as a paid code review service, or cite its blog and FAQ on Google's readability reviews. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Code Review as a Service11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2017-08-17
- /4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2017-09-04
- /blog/google-code-review-readability-certification/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-12-21
- What Belongs in an Effective Code Review Checklist?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-11-13
What Hacker News says?
Interesting... If someone wants to know more about what a readability approver does: https://www.pullrequest.com/blog/google-code-review-readabil...
Comment linking /blog/google-code-review-readability-certification/
on “How the Python import system works”Submitted Code Review as a Service as a story · 319 points
HN discussionI agree with what I think is your argument that “bureaucratic” tools used at a company with many thousands of engineers aren’t necessarily appropriate for a much smaller company. For example, the system of ownership by directory in a monorepo alluded to in other comments is unnecessary if you have a handful of engineers or a few dozen. Or the system like their “readability” reviews that you can read about elsewhere…
Comment linking /blog/google-code-review-readability-certification/
on “An ex-Googler’s guide to dev tools”Submitted How Remote Teams Make Code Review Work Across Multiple Timezones as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhy would anyone ever apply to a place that has such a graph on its website? https://www.pullrequest.com/images/figures/reviewers/screeni... From a customer perspective, and if it's really true they probably will have to lower their standards to serve you too.
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on “Code Review as a Service”Submitted Code review as a service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt seems they don't accept any reviewer outside US and Canada, let alone 3rd world countries. https://www.pullrequest.com/faq/
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on “Code Review as a Service”Submitted The $85B Cost of Bad Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussion"All of our employees, contractors, and reviewers are based in the US and Canada. " https://www.pullrequest.com/faq/
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on “Code Review as a Service”Submitted Lyft Does Code Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI've used a tool similar to what you've described here called https://www.pullrequest.com/ for code review, though it's fairly new IIRC and not cheap.
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on “Kite launches line-of-code completions, goes cloudless, secures $17M in funding”Submitted Using FOSSA to check open source licenses as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnd also: https://www.pullrequest.com/
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on “Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?”Submitted What Belongs in an Effective Code Review Checklist? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBased on [1]; readability in google means you've been certified to review code according to Google's code style in a given language. Seems like if you've been certified you don't need an extra person who has been certified in 'readability' to review your code so it makes it easier. 1) https://www.pullrequest.com/blog/google-code-review-readabil...
Comment linking /blog/google-code-review-readability-certification/
on “Modern Code Review: A Case Study at Google (2018) [pdf]”Submitted What Belongs in an Effective Code Review Checklist? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFWIW, and definitely somewhat off-topic, when they say code is reviewed "twice," they don't mean necessarily literally. When someone gets "readability" in a language, they can approve changes in that language for readability; if neither the reviewer nor the person writing the code yet have readability in a given language, they will need someone who does to approve it in addition. The idea is to have someone who has…
Comment linking /blog/google-code-review-readability-certification/
on “Long Names Are Long (2016)”Submitted PullRequest – Code Review as a Service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should edit the submission description to make https://www.pullrequest.com/ a clickable link. I've seen that done for other Launch HN submissions.
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on “Launch HN: PullRequest (YC S17) – On-Demand Code Review”Submitted How to Write a Good Comment as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou could try posting the snippets you need peer reviewed here on code review stack exchange - https://codereview.stackexchange.com I recently came across https://www.pullrequest.com and have heard good things about them.
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on “Effective Code Reviews – A Primer”Submitted Solving Problems Collaboratively Through Code Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI used https://www.pullrequest.com just to pay someone else to look at my code and make suggestions. Aside from just the normal nitpick styling stuff, they usually have decent architecture suggestions and help you avoid making costly mistakes. It's not cheap, but my project is a full time effort that makes money and I found it worthwhile.
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on “Ask HN: How do solo devs get feedback on their code?”Submitted Lessons Learned from My First Week of Code Review as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.pullrequest.com/ I’ve heard about them after they acquire the freelance platform https://moonlightwork.com .
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on “Ask HN: Paid code review as a service?”Submitted The right way to put together a code review checklist as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe only service I've seen for this is https://www.pullrequest.com/ . Seems more for teams but it may work.
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on “Ask HN: Where can I get a whole project reviewed?”https://www.pullrequest.com - Can't personally vouch for this, since I haven't used it, but seems to be an option.
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on “Ask HN: How to get code review feedback for side projects?”Not affiliated, but there are services like PullRequest[0] that do code review as a service -- it might be worth doing this in your situation to cut out the overhead of trying to find someone qualified. Disclaimer: haven't used them yet, so can't comment on quality. [0] https://www.pullrequest.com/
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on “Ask HN: Experience with Code Consultants?”Thanks for the thread. I am loking for a part time business person/CEO. I am a tech guy. Have 15+ years experience building backend systems. Now, I build user facing websites/services and release them. I have no knowledge of marketing/sales, so if you are a non tech guy who wants to do some fun projects, hit me up. Email in profile. Currently, I am working on a website where people can post their code and ask for fe…
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on “Ask HN: Co-Founder? Seeking Co-Founder?”
