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Ito

Code reviews that run code

Details

External ID
48558949
Source
HN
Company
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Product
Ito AI, open source smart dictation
Website domain
ito.ai
Launched
June 16, 2026
Cohort
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Upvotes
10
Upvotes percentile
0.5935792349726776
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Description

I'm Evan and I made Ito.aiIt's code review that actually runs your code. The result is that it finds more bugs with a smaller false positive rate. You get screenshots, videos, and run logs. I built Ito because manual verification sucks and I thought I could automate it. I've been a professional developer for 15 years and now more than ever, I'm just spending time making sure things work.I looked into all of the other agentic testing tools that click around a url you give them and frankly, they sucked. They just didn't work. I figured to be able to actually testing things you need to run the full environment so you can seed data, bypass gates, mock external dependencies. They also can't get runtime evidence about changes that aren't frontend. Ito does.Under the hood, Ito is creating a devcontainer for your application. All of your services are wired up and then a team of agents goes and tests your PR. We rolled out our own sandboxes and our own agentic coding loops.I built Ito to be another useful signal in development. It shouldn't annoy you when it's not perfect and it saves you a bunch of time testing.A few open source examples:- n8n https://app.ito.ai/share/bb7d73aa-fd08-482d-9938-87938e2a232...- lobehub https://app.ito.ai/share/1d76f15a-9998-4154-85b4-b177924cba8...- excalidraw https://app.ito.ai/share/d1cb1475-fbe5-4c71-901b-409ba2aa6d6...

Enrichment

Theme
AI agent frameworks and developer tools
Vertical
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Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
AI feature
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
code reviews that execute code
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

No Ito requires spinning up isolated, secure container sandboxes per PR to automatically build, configure, and execute arbitrary full-stack applications and test browser flows. Building safe multi-tenant ephemeral execution infrastructure with intelligent test generation and screen recording requires deep DevOps, virtualization security, and distributed systems expertise.

What it would actually take: A production implementation requires an orchestrator managing microVMs or ephemeral containers (e.g., Firecracker or Fly.io Machines) to safely build and execute arbitrary untrusted PR code, combined with Playwright/Puppeteer agents driven by LLM planners to infer and run user flows. The hardest problems are securely isolating untrusted builds, handling arbitrary database migrations/seed data, and maintaining high reliability with sub-minute startup latencies. This demands seasoned cloud infrastructure engineers and systems security experts.

Discussion

8 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Static code analysis tools, Internal QA automation built in-house

Concerns raised: High infrastructure and setup costs for quality results, Unclear how it handles external service dependencies (Stripe, sandboxes), How PR test scope is determined, Performance and cost of initial POCs, Value proposition versus building internally with QA skills

Feature requests: Support for back-end only repo layouts, Include screenshots in test evidence beyond curl/logs

Competitors

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Attention rank: #46 of 94 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 227 days after the earliest competitor.

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