Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience

Source: Hacker News

Introduction

Hey HN,

I’m Bereket, founder of Better Auth. Our team spends a huge amount of time on GitHub every day, and like many others, I’ve always wished for a much better GitHub experience.

After seeing a tweet from Mitchell (HashiCorp) complaining about the repository main page, I decided to prototype an alternative interface using GitHub’s APIs. Within a week, I started using it as my default, and the rest of our team soon followed. After polishing a few rough edges, I’m sharing it here.

Goals

• 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.

Technical Details

• Built with Next.js as a server that talks to the GitHub API.
• Heavy caching and local state management to keep the experience snappy.
• We’re exploring optional git hosting (in collaboration with teams building alternative backends), but the current experiment focuses on how much we can improve the experience without replacing GitHub.

Call for Feedback

This is ambitious and very early. The goal is to explore what a more modern code‑collaboration experience could look like and make it something the community can help shape.

I’d love your thoughts on what should be improved about GitHub overall.

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