[russ]

This is very cool! I’ve wanted something like CodeMic for a long time.

Back when I was at Twitter, we used Review Board for code reviews (this was in 2009, before GH was a thing for most companies). It was tough to thoughtfully review large branches, especially for parts of the codebase that I wasn’t familiar with. I remember thinking, if I could somehow record the development process for a PR I was reviewing, it would be easier to understand what the submitter was trying to accomplish and how they went about doing so. I found myself more so reviewing code style instead of functionality, architecture, or design.

I watched most of the intro video, but didn’t go deeper on the site. Does CM integrate easily into the code review/PR process? I suppose I could just attach a link in any PR description?

Great work!

[seansh]

Thanks a lot! I have thought about it being useful for learning, for fun, as a new kind of documentation, or even for onboarding new hires but the use case for code review didn't occur to me. That's great. I can think of 3 ways to share sessions:

- attach a link as you said

- once the web player is ready, it could perhaps be integrated into the code review tool. It'll be like embedding a youtube video

- the entire recorded session can be exported as a zip file and attached to the PR or shared privately

[jagged-chisel]

As the reviewer, I would like to annotate the replay session along the way and have those annotations available to other reviewers and the PR author.