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Hey HN,I’m Bereket, founder of Better Auth. Our team spends a huge amount of time on GitHub every day. Like anyone who’s spent enough time there, I’ve always wished for a much better GitHub experience.I’ve asked a lot of people to do something about it, but it seems like no one is really tackling GitHub directly.A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet from Mitchell (HashiCorp) complaining about the repo main page. That became the trigger. I decided to start hacking on a prototype to see how far I could push an alternative interface using GitHub’s APIs.Within a week, I genuinely started using it as my default, same with the rest of our team. After fixing a few rough edges, I decided to put it out there.A few things we’re trying to achieve:- UI/UX rethink* – A redesigned repo home, PR review flow, and overview pages focused on signal over noise. Faster navigation and clearer structure.- Keyboard-first workflow: ⌘K-driven command center, ⌘/ for global search, ⌘I opens “Ghost,” an AI assistant, and more.- Better AI integration: Context-aware AI that understands the repo, the PR you’re viewing, and the diff you’re looking at.- New concepts: Prompt Requests, self-healing CI, auto-merge with automatic conflict resolution, etc.It’s a simple Next.js server talking to the GitHub API, with heavy caching and local state management.We’re considering optional git hosting (in collaboration with teams building alternative backends), but for now, the experiment is: how much can we improve without replacing GitHubThis is ambitious and very early. The goal is to explore what a more modern code collaboration experience could look like, and make it something we can all collaborate on.I’d love your feedback on what you think should be improved about GitHub overall.
HN · launched Feb 26, 2026 · 38 upvotes (top 22%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 226 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes It is an alternative web frontend for GitHub built on top of GitHub's existing REST and GraphQL APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GitCafe, Nitter (Twitter alternative), NewPipe (YouTube alternative)
Concerns raised: Requires broad GitHub permissions/access token on first login, No public repo preview before authentication, Poor onboarding experience for new users, Dark mode loses setting on refresh, Stores data to database rather than being simple frontend alternative
Feature requests: Allow public repo viewing without authentication, Public repo preview via URL (better-hub.com/{org}/{repo}), Direct GitHub repo link on landing page, Self-host option, Light mode as default with persistence on refresh
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 605 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #141 of 606 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 119 days after the earliest competitor.
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