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Show HN: WorkWeave, a tool to make every engineer a 10x engineer (app.workweave.ai)

17 points by adchurch ↗ HN
Hello HN,

We’re building WorkWeave, a tool to make every engineer a 10x engineer.

Is that even possible to do? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments but spoiler alert, we think the answer is yes.

Imagine a combination of a smart tech lead, a quality engineering manager, and a helpful career coach - all dedicated to you alone, working 24/7 to help you improve. If you’re the luckiest engineer ever, you already have this on your team. For the other 99.9%, that’s exactly what we want to be.

We’re excited to launch our beta - connect to GitHub to try it out: https://app.workweave.ai/start!

We’ll analyze the repositories you give us permission for and give you a report with analysis, suggestions, and a little fun :)

This is just the beginning. Soon, we’ll go much deeper and broader. We’ll give even more intelligent suggestions for how you can improve, help you track your progress, prepare you for 1:1s/performance reviews, and get you promoted faster.

Interested but don’t want to connect your GitHub just yet? Fair enough! You can also add your email at https://www.workweave.ai/join-waitlist to register for early access.

I [adchurch] will be around all day to discuss and answer questions. Enjoy!

8 comments

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adambeecee
Thinking about it differently by focusing on individuals as opposed to teams/projects...interesting! Gave me some fun insights on my git... will try to connect my other systems.
adchurch
Awesome, glad to hear it! Let me know if you have any other questions or feedback :)
davetron5000
It wants to act on GitHub on my behalf. Not clear why I should allow it to do that, especially when the only info about this app that is presented is that it will store my data on GCP.

Can you modify your oauth request to only ask for what permissions you need and/or itemize out what the app is going to do on my behalf?

adchurch
Totally fair - I'll look into removing that because we don't need it. But fwiw we don't act on your behalf, we just pull data about PRs/reviews!

Thanks for the feedback :)

adchurch
It's worth mentioning that GitHub only allows us to act on your behalf in repos you install the app in. But when you install the app you'll see it's only requesting read permissions to metadata => it can't take any actions, either by itself or on your behalf.

So tbh I think that bit of UI is a little deceptive because in practice we can't actually do anything with just an authorization but no installation. Relevant docs: https://docs.github.com/en/apps/using-github-apps/authorizin....

Still very useful feedback though!

Laffs
Been using this product for the last few weeks, really impressed by the output. The reports are succinct, accurate, and surprisingly actionable.