Big tech companies have internal tools that they use to make code review easier. Planar (YC W23) is a free chrome extension that adds these features to GitHub.
Features include: - A new review page UX that uses AI to group together related changes in a large PR - An inbox that shows you which PRs need your review across all your repos - A layout that puts comments side by side with code
With more features coming soon … - Ability to easily view and navigate stacked PRs - Macros / GIF responses - A visual dependency graph that shows you how all the files and components in your PR are connected
We realized that most developers don't want an additional tool, so we designed the tool as a chrome extension that adds all of these features natively to GitHub.
Check it out and let us know what you think!
Wow this looks really nice! The AI-grouped (and described) file changes is something I have never seen before, and I thought I'd seen everything in code review.
A lot of what you're doing is similar to what I've been trying to achieve with CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) which brings Google's code review workflow (Critique) to everyone using GitHub. It's not doing any of the AI stuff, just focusing on conversation resolution, managing assignment, and giving a much more "power user" UX to the whole thing.
If you ever want to chat about code review, just shoot me an email.