{"slug": "show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself", "title": "Show HN: Nitpicler. I was quoted $1M for AI PR review – so I bulit it myself", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "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.\n\nGive it a try and let me know what you think - [https://nitpicker.dev](https://nitpicker.dev)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244936](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244936)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself", "canonical_source": "https://nitpicker.dev", "published_at": "2026-08-10 15:24:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-10 15:42:25.818055+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Postman", "Nitpicler"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-nitpicler-i-was-quoted-1m-for-ai-pr-review-so-i-bulit-it-myself.jsonld"}}