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Show HN: GitNotebooks – Jupyter Notebook Review Tool

28 points by smith-kyle 2y ago

Hey HN, would love some feedback on our Jupyter Notebook review tool! We help data science teams check one another's work and share knowledge that's stored in Jupyter Notebooks. Currently, we integrate with GitHub, allowing for review comment submissions, pull request approval, comments on markdown and code cells that sync with GitHub. Happy to answer any questions!

samuelstros 2y ago
are you running into issues while building on top of git & github? i assume that you need to teach data science people git/github
- smith-kyle 2y ago
  Most data scientists know git! Or, at the very least, how to follow a step-by-step git guide. If notebooks are tracked anywhere at an org it's either where their code is stored (GitHub/GitLab), or in their managed notebook environment (Databricks/Hex)
  - samuelstros 2y ago
    interesting. that was not the case in 2019 when i did a bit of data science.
vector_spaces 2y ago
My immediate thoughts are: - this landing page needs an indication of how to get started using this, and it should be low friction. I see there's a sign in button -- it should probably say "get started" or similar. - you need to explain your pricing model and what it takes to get started using this: is it a browser plugin? A separate / parallel platform? Does anything need to be installed? Is it as simple as authing to your platform with gh? - clarity on whether this works for private repos -- prospects will be wondering this. Presumably it does otherwise it's not very useful - for your target audience, you need some lip service explaining why someone would want this -- lots of the people you are targeting don't use PR oriented development flows, sadly - clarity on whether pr comments / approvals / etc live in GitHub vs your platform, what does / doesn't get mapped over, etc. You don't need to answer these questions here, this is just what your prospects will be thinking
- smith-kyle 2y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! Some of these questions are answered on our home page, but not all. Is anything unclear after looking at the home page? Demo: https://app.gitnotebooks.com/GitNotebooks/demo/pull/1 https://app.gitnotebooks.com/GitNotebooks/demo/pull/1 Home Page: https://www.gitnotebooks.com/ https://www.gitnotebooks.com/
sixhobbits 2y ago
Is this just a copy of reviewnb which has been around for years? If this is new I'm doubtful you already have all those logos as your customers. It doesn't build trust to make claims if they aren't true.
- smith-kyle 2y ago
  We've been around for a couple years now, wouldn't lie about the dev sign ups :)
  - sixhobbits 2y ago
    Apologies then, I always assume show HNs are new projects but maybe that's unfair. Would be maybe a good idea to explicitly list any problems you had with ReviewNB and why yours is different as the demos etc look pretty similar
stephantul 2y ago
Hi Kyle, nice to see you on here. Happy customer here from Ecosia

28 points by smith-kyle 2y ago

samuelstros 2y ago

are you running into issues while building on top of git & github? i assume that you need to teach data science people git/github

smith-kyle 2y ago
Most data scientists know git! Or, at the very least, how to follow a step-by-step git guide. If notebooks are tracked anywhere at an org it's either where their code is stored (GitHub/GitLab), or in their managed notebook environment (Databricks/Hex)
- samuelstros 2y ago
  interesting. that was not the case in 2019 when i did a bit of data science.

vector_spaces 2y ago

My immediate thoughts are: - this landing page needs an indication of how to get started using this, and it should be low friction. I see there's a sign in button -- it should probably say "get started" or similar. - you need to explain your pricing model and what it takes to get started using this: is it a browser plugin? A separate / parallel platform? Does anything need to be installed? Is it as simple as authing to your platform with gh? - clarity on whether this works for private repos -- prospects will be wondering this. Presumably it does otherwise it's not very useful - for your target audience, you need some lip service explaining why someone would want this -- lots of the people you are targeting don't use PR oriented development flows, sadly - clarity on whether pr comments / approvals / etc live in GitHub vs your platform, what does / doesn't get mapped over, etc. You don't need to answer these questions here, this is just what your prospects will be thinking

smith-kyle 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Some of these questions are answered on our home page, but not all. Is anything unclear after looking at the home page? Demo: https://app.gitnotebooks.com/GitNotebooks/demo/pull/1 https://app.gitnotebooks.com/GitNotebooks/demo/pull/1 Home Page: https://www.gitnotebooks.com/ https://www.gitnotebooks.com/

sixhobbits 2y ago

Is this just a copy of reviewnb which has been around for years? If this is new I'm doubtful you already have all those logos as your customers. It doesn't build trust to make claims if they aren't true.

smith-kyle 2y ago
We've been around for a couple years now, wouldn't lie about the dev sign ups :)
- sixhobbits 2y ago
  Apologies then, I always assume show HNs are new projects but maybe that's unfair. Would be maybe a good idea to explicitly list any problems you had with ReviewNB and why yours is different as the demos etc look pretty similar

stephantul 2y ago

Hi Kyle, nice to see you on here. Happy customer here from Ecosia