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Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#21

https://www.codementor.io/ https://www.airpair.com/ https://hackhands.com/ (not sure if still active) https://officehours.io/ (not sure if still active)

Has anyone experience with officehours.io? I like the concept and it sounds like something HN would typically be interested in but all previous posts about them didn't get any traction.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#23
It depends on your goal. If you are looking for performances, many times, the good team practice isn't the fastest, or simplest.

What about writing quick units tests and make your own comparisons? What is working nice for you, is probably the best way, anyway!

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#24

https://www.codementor.io/ https://www.airpair.com/ https://hackhands.com/ (not sure if still active) https://officehours.io/ (not sure if still active)

Is airpair still active? Their twitter account seems to have stopped and I can't seem to make their website do anything except show tutorials

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

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post #19

I'm surprised there hasn't been more mention of GitHub.

How is this going to help though? If you are starting out and have a few test projects on github it doesn’t really happen that random people discover them and do a code review. It barely happens with bigger open source projects.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#26
You can send me an email. I have 3 years of experience developing large scale as well as performant software, including work experience at two YC startups. Mail: abhikandoi2000@gmail.com

Note: This opportunity window is only open for a short period before I start something else. Post which it will become less likely for me to respond frequently.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#27

You can send me an email. I have 3 years of experience developing large scale as well as performant software, including work experience at two YC startups. Mail: abhikandoi2000@gmail.com Note: This opportunity window is only open for a short period before I start something else. Post which it will become less likely for me to respond frequently.

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Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

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post #3

Go to Github and look at projects where there have been a few recent merged pull requests. Look at listed issues, the TODO file and so forth. Fix an issue and send a pull request. After a few such patches, this will start getting you code reviews. People have much more time to review your patches to their code than they do to make suggested patches to your code.

I was just going through GitHub and couldn't find how to do "few recent merged pull request".

Any pointer?

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

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post #3

Go to Github and look at projects where there have been a few recent merged pull requests. Look at listed issues, the TODO file and so forth. Fix an issue and send a pull request. After a few such patches, this will start getting you code reviews. People have much more time to review your patches to their code than they do to make suggested patches to your code.

I was just going through GitHub and couldn't find how to do "few recent merged pull request". Any pointer?

Well let's say you know Kotlin well and program for the Android platform a lot. You can search Github for projects using the Kotlin language which contain the word Android, with the most stars like this:

https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=language%3AKotlin+Android...

We go down six and see Google's android architecture components. We click on it and click on pull requests. We look at what is open and what is closed.

We see a month ago someone sent a pull request which was merged -

https://github.com/googlesamples/android-architecture-compon...

If we go back more we can see other merged requests in the recent past.

This is a project with a "few recent merged pull requests". People sent a patch to the code in a pull request, and their branch was merged into the main code base.

While this example was Android and Kotlin, you can look at other languages you have more familiarity with, and other focuses. Projects with a lot of stars and/or forks are good candidates to look at, and you can sort by them. I did add the caveat recent though, as sometimes a project has been abandoned for a year or more, and there might be no active project owner to merge pull requests.

Re: Ask HN: Where to find someone to review my code?

#30

https://www.codementor.io/ https://www.airpair.com/ https://hackhands.com/ (not sure if still active) https://officehours.io/ (not sure if still active)

Has anyone experience with officehours.io? I like the concept and it sounds like something HN would typically be interested in but all previous posts about them didn't get any traction.

Officehours hasn’t seen a lot of traction. That said, it’s still running, and has some activity.

To our surprise, the biggest problem is in getting requests for advisors’ time. Turns out many will share their experience; fewer feel comfortable asking for it.

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