Omniref
Dev tools
code review
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
4 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Smart line-tracking annotations are useful and well done
From 2 comments
This is beautiful and clearly very useful. Some thoughts: * Business-wise, your main risk is that GitHub agrees how useful this is and builds much of the same features. In a…
allanderek on HNOh. My. Word. This is awesome - both the UI and how it works/what it does. Well done! Having this embedded inside JetBrains IDEs would be fab (no idea if possible via a plugin).…
pbowyer on HN
Ruby source docs interface is the best option
From 1 comment
Awesome! The interface is great, I always found it the best option for looking into ruby source code. Wishing you guys success with your endeavors.
great_kraken on HN
Objections
Pricing is too high compared with a Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I feel like this could all be done with a polished up chrome extension. I don't see what I'd be paying $50/mo for, which is double what I pay for my company's GitHub account…
reustle on HN
Hits GitHub API rate limits heavily during import
From 1 comment
This appears to hammer GitHub's API pretty aggressively. I attempted to import https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach and a few hours later my API limit is exceeded. Seems bad.
tdrd on HN
UI is slow and laggy
From 2 comments
We currently use Reviewable.io. It has a lot of features that I expect from a code review tool, but the UI is just very bad and slow on so many levels. Will give omniref a try.…
webo on HNHey Piotr, there's not a single issue I can just point out. The whole experience feels lagish and slow. It is most likely there's so much JavaScript on the client. I even have…
webo on HN
Requests
Editor and IDE integration
From 3 comments
This is beautiful and clearly very useful. Some thoughts: * Business-wise, your main risk is that GitHub agrees how useful this is and builds much of the same features. In a…
allanderek on HNHere are two things I'd want from code reviews: * Editor integration. Let the comments show up in Atom or whatever as inline editor annotations (assuming they're on the right…
lobster_johnson on HNOh. My. Word. This is awesome - both the UI and how it works/what it does. Well done! Having this embedded inside JetBrains IDEs would be fab (no idea if possible via a plugin).…
pbowyer on HN
API for third-party plugins
From 1 comment
This is beautiful and clearly very useful. Some thoughts: * Business-wise, your main risk is that GitHub agrees how useful this is and builds much of the same features. In a…
allanderek on HN
Inline editing during review
From 1 comment
Here are two things I'd want from code reviews: * Editor integration. Let the comments show up in Atom or whatever as inline editor annotations (assuming they're on the right…
lobster_johnson on HN
Questions
How forks are handled for annotation metadata
From 1 comment
This is a good point. In particular what happens if you fork a repository, do you lose the meta-data? What happens if you have a fork for coordination of a sub-team, are the…
allanderek on HN
How line tracking works across history
From 1 comment
Oh. My. Word. This is awesome - both the UI and how it works/what it does. Well done! Having this embedded inside JetBrains IDEs would be fab (no idea if possible via a plugin).…
pbowyer on HN
Alternatives named
Reviewable.io
From 1 comment
We currently use Reviewable.io. It has a lot of features that I expect from a code review tool, but the UI is just very bad and slow on so many levels. Will give omniref a try.…
webo on HN
git-appraise
From 1 comment
I agree with this, and recently learned about https://github.com/google/git-appraise which I believe stores the code reviews in the repo itself.
justinsb on HN