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Show HN: Nitpicler. I was quoted $1M for AI PR review – so I bulit it myself

Postman engineer built Nitpicler, an open-source AI code review tool, after being quoted $1M/year for commercial alternatives. The tool costs about $300/month in token usage, reviews thousands of PRs daily in under 30 seconds, and deploys in under a minute.

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Hi HN. I wanted an AI reviewer on every PR at work. Quotes came back around $1M/year, almost entirely per-seat licensing. I built a true open source alternative. We use it internally at Postman and the cost is ~$300/m in token usage. It's open source, self hosted (also supports AWS lambda, cloudflare workers or Github actions) and can be deployed in under a minute. It is lightweight (only diff is sent to the LLM), support any LLM provider and scalable. Our busiest repo has thousands of PRs a day and we usually get PR reviews within 30 seconds.

Give it a try and let me know what you think - [https://nitpicker.dev](https://nitpicker.dev)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244936](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244936)

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