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I know this can come off as shameless self promotion and this site is just a landing page and signup form in it's present state. I recently quit my day job to try to work on my own projects, and this time around I'd rather get early feedback before really even building an MVP. That said, I do think this would be a useful service and would be happy to build it, if enough people like the idea and would want to use it. I'll be putting on my tough skin now, if anyone has any feedback at all. Thanks!

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I would not use this because:

-I can't have my company's source code existing in yet another system. It's already in github and after CircleCI's security failure my desire to have another entry point to source code is very low.

-More importantly: I, and most experienced developers, don't use code review to find simple syntax errors or fix stylistic issues. Code review is a way to socialize your changes and make sure they make sense in the larger system. The code reviewers on a site like this will not understand the larger system with enough to detail to find issues that are not simple syntax errors.

Just my .02

This is what I came here to post. I think there are use cases for something like this (learning a new language), but it's going to be really difficult to get this into B2B territory for the reasons you mention. I would focus more on the educational aspect of this, like you get personal feedback from a mentor on how your programming ability is going. The main competitor here is contribs to Open Source, where you'll get lots of tips on style and integration for free (maybe too much so).

Thanksk for your thoughts! As I mentioned in another response, maybe this is best aimed at coders picking up a new technology (or non-coders becoming coders), similar to AirPair.

Definitely could be a lot of room there. I can't imagine O'Reilly guides are the best way to quickly learn a new language...

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