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by heeton 1462 days ago
I like the site + product idea, but the demo fails to show me anything interesting except a floating comment. So I can't yet see the value of the tool.

The files you've chosen to use don't appear to show any difference between iteration 1 and 2, so one of your major features doesn't do anything. Is that a bug, or accidental? (I'm using Firefox 101 on MacOS 11.4).

My personal dumb suggestion: give a few demos, showing off the very worst points of code review hell, and how crocodile fixes each one. Make it a game. E.g.

"You're halfway through a large code review, and Sally has just added 2 new commits, ugh. Challenge: find the button to see the new additions, then decide if you want to include them in your current review, or review this iteration first and the new additions separately."

"Simon has just added a merge commit that fucks everything up, all the files look weird. Challenge: there's a way you can trivially see that the PR before this extra commit was looking great."

"You can spot a new method that was introduced, and you'd like to see the places where it's being called, but that's a lot of scrolling back and forth. Challenge: find how to show code hints on a selected piece of text"