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by codeapprove 935 days ago
I was on a team at Google that used both Critique and GitHub very heavily, so I was able to constantly see the side-by-side and understand the pain engineers faced when doing external code reviews (as a whole, people actually liked working on GitHub).

After I left I created CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) to bring a lot of Google's best code review practices to GitHub. It doesn't give you everything Critique did, but I think it brings the same speed, clarity, and focus in a way that's still compatible with the rest of your GitHub workflow.
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stavros 935 days ago
This looks like a good tool, and I was tempted to try it, but it costs twice as much as GitHub itself, and I'm not sure it would give us twice as much value.
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codeapprove 934 days ago
Honestly that’s fair because GitHub is very good and probably too cheap. If they doubled their prices tomorrow I wouldn’t even consider leaving.

What would you pay for CodeApprove? Also if you email me I’m happy to set you up with a 6-month free trial with no credit card required. Maybe you’ll like it more than you think!

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stavros 934 days ago
> GitHub is very good and probably too cheap

Yeah, that's probably true, it's just that I'm getting subscription fatigue, with every little tool like "Google Meet links for Slack!" wanting $5/mo/user. I commented something similar upthread, but maybe "free for the first five users, $9/mo/user after" would be much more aligned with your customers' incentives, and would allow you to get a foothold in companies when they're small, and be paid as they expand.

I don't know yet what I'd pay, as I haven't tried it and don't know what value it gives me (it might well be worth the $9!). I'd appreciate a trial, I could send it around the company and see if it makes reviews less painful.

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