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Company blog · reviewable.io/blog · on HN as piotrkaminskiprogrammingweb
Reviewable is the company blog at reviewable.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 86 times, most often “Reviewable – GitHub code reviews done right”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers recommend Reviewable as a code review layer on GitHub pull requests, valued for stacked changes, rebase handling and batched comments. Several call it a favourite or a good upgrade over GitHub's own reviews.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Reviewable – GitHub code reviews done right17 people · 66 mentions · first linked 2014-11-14
- Reviewable: GitHub code reviews done right10 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2014-09-10
What Hacker News says?
I got frustrated waiting for improved PR code review, so I built https://reviewable.io . It's best suited for private repos (since there's a learning curve that make throw off potential open source contributors) but it addresses a lot of the issues with PRs. Take a look!
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on “Dear GitHub”Submitted Repainting our app mid-flight as a story · 12 points
HN discussionReviewable | Senior Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE only | Full Time | https://reviewable.io Reviewable is a code review tool for GitHub that improves on pull requests. It has seen strong adoption among companies that prioritize thorough but efficient code reviews. The company is bootstrapped and has been profitable for a number of years. I'm now looking for the first full-time hire: somebody who could quickly take the…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?”Submitted Reviewable: GitHub code reviews done right as a story · 8 points
HN discussionIn case you do want to try out another one at some point, I built https://reviewable.io to take some of my favorite features from Google's internal tool but integrate seamlessly with GitHub.
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on “Go is moving to GitHub”Submitted When you keep shipping the same kinds of bugs as a story · 5 points
HN discussion- GitHub doesn't show you what changed in a PR from the last time you looked at it. You can look through the individual commits, but this can be painful if there's a lot of them, and can easily become impossible if the code was merged, rebased, or squashed. - GitHub sends each comment individually, encouraging "shotgun commenting" instead of a coherent set on the sender side, and leaving the receiver to deal with do…
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on “Go is moving to GitHub”Submitted Reviewable got dark mode a couple years late as a story · 4 points
HN discussionReviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) has strong support for a rebase-centric workflow while still integrating pretty well with GitHub. Once somebody has reviewed a commit it never disappears, even if you rebase and force push (special refs keep them pinned in the repo). You can easily get incremental diffs between the old and rebased branch or individual commits. I'll shortly be deploying a new feature where Reviewa…
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on “More code review tools”Submitted Reviewable.io: GitHub code reviews done right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThen give Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) a try. :) Comments remain open until acknowledged / resolved and are automatically displayed at the nearest applicable line in every diff. Disclosure: I built the tool.
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on “More code review tools”Submitted MaidSafe Safecoin RFC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFolks who have this problem might want to check out Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ): 1. Discussions are automatically treated as "issues" that need to be resolved before the review is complete. Resolving can be as simple as clicking "acknowledge" without following up, but there's also a rich system of "dispositions" that lets you block a discussion, resolve it unconditionally, etc. 2. You can set multiple assig…
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on “More code review tools”Submitted Reviewable – GitHub code reviews done right as a story · 2 points
HN discussionReviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) is built around this workflow: it will keep your drafts, let you review them, then send them all at once (triggering a single notification email). Disclosure: I built the tool. :)
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on “More code review tools”Submitted First-class support for rebased code review on GitHub as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHonestly what i want is for github to purchase https://reviewable.io/ and make it native. Maybe gate sone of the more advanced features behind an opt-in so beginners are not too overwhelmed (and because you probably don’t need them on smaller projects), but the current state of things is just appalling, and more importantly has not at all kept up with workflows on large projects or long / complicated PRs. The comple…
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on “Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster”I'm surprised Reviewable[0] hasn't come up in this discussion. It does a great job of allowing stacked code reviews and even handles rebases nicely; the reviewer sees the diff between commit #1 and commit #1' (prime = after rebase). CockroachDB[1] has been using it since very early in the project. [0] https://reviewable.io/ [1] https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach
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on “Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster”Reviewable | CEO | REMOTE | Full time | https://reviewable.io Reviewable: Reviewable is a peer code review tool for GitHub PRs that makes your workflow simultaneously more efficient and more thorough. Inspired by Google's Critique and launched 6 years ago, it has picked up a dedicated following solely through word of mouth and has made inroads into the enterprise market, particularly in the self-driving car vertical…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Thanks! GitHub actually does some of these things already. Do these solutions help/suffice? - Batching all comments in a single send: This is a core GitHub code review feature. You can send immediately by pressing the "Add single comment" button, but if you "Start a review", your comments are batched. - Built-in fixes and lints on the PR "Files changed" tab: GitHub Checks offer this, although not many teams have ado…
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on “Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers”Starting in 2014 I built Reviewable ( https://reviewable.io ) because after getting used to Critique at Google I couldn't stand the workflow of GitHub's PR code reviews. Reviewable gives you interdiffs (even when rebasing), tracks what you've already reviewed, has a rich comment resolution system for multi-party reviews, and lets you know when the ball is in your court. It has also grown more customizable over the y…
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on “Ask HN: What are some tools / libraries you built yourself?”Reviewable | UX Engineer | Remote (US preferred) | Full time | https://reviewable.io Reviewable is a web app that makes code reviews of PRs more efficient and thorough -- think "Google Critique for GitHub". We're bootstrapped and growing, especially in the enterprise space, but this is not a VC rocketship. We're a tiny team that takes pride in shipping quickly while building a codebase that we actually enjoy working…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”If you can't reduce PR size, then at the very least you can make the process less painful by splitting the work up with a tool such as https://reviewable.io/
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on “Ask HN: How do you review code?”If you're willing to use GitHub, then https://reviewable.io has all the features listed above and more. Disclosure: I'm the founder.
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on “Ask HN: How do you review code?”Reviewable | Lead Product Designer | REMOTE (US only), full-time | https://reviewable.io Hey there! Reviewable is growing quickly and we're looking for an experienced Product Designer to help us continue to delight developers around the world. Reviewable is a code review tool for GitHub pull requests that makes the process of serious reviews thorough yet efficient. It's not for everyone but the teams that need it sw…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”Reviewable | UX Engineer | 100% REMOTE (overlap with US time zones) | Full-time | https://reviewable.io Hey there! Reviewable is a code review tool for GitHub pull requests that makes the process of serious reviews thorough yet efficient. It's not for everyone but the teams that need it swear by it, especially in larger companies. We're building out our team and need an experienced UX Engineer: somebody who's a bona…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Reviewable | Lead Software Engineer / CTO | REMOTE (US) | Full-time | https://reviewable.io Reviewable is a bootstrapped code review tool that improves on GitHub PRs. I've been running the company mostly solo for 5+ years and need somebody to take over the core engineering, product management, and ops functions. You must be knowledgeable and excited about code reviews, and able to both plan a product strategy and ex…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)”https://reviewable.io is a good upgrade from regular GitHub reviews
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on “Shutting down CodePlex”Reviewable | Bay Area, CA, USA or Remote | Full Time | Generalist / Backend Developers | Typescript | https://reviewable.io/ https://github.com/Reviewable/Reviewable/tree/master/careers Reviewable is a very small, bootstrapped business that sells our code review software to some of the largest companies around. We've been around long enough to be much more stable than your average startup, yet stayed small enough to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)”I like https://reviewable.io , low friction github integration but gerrit-like multi-patchsets and generally a sane flow when you have multiple rounds of comments
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on “Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now”
