Nikui
An LLM-Powered "Stench Guard" for Your CI/CD
Details
- External ID
- 47312332
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Nikui
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.1070110701107011
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built Nikui because standard linters catch typos but miss architectural rot. It is a forensics tool inspired by Adam Tornhill's "Code as a Crime Scene."The core idea is the Hotspot Score: Stench (LLM-detected debt) x Churn (Git commit frequency). A messy file that changes daily is a priority; a messy file untouched for years is ignored.
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- llm-powered code quality checks in ci/cd
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a CI/CD CLI tool that parses Git commit history to compute churn metrics and passes modified source files to an LLM API to detect code smells.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 3 launches clear the similarity bar.
Attention rank: #4 of 4 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 33 days after the earliest competitor.
- Codex builds a working NES Emulator in one hour · hn · 2026-02-26 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- OpenShears · hn · 2026-02-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.30
- CodeYam Memory · hn · 2026-03-04 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.30
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