We did it! Prelint hit #1 on Product Hunt this week - thank you for every upvote, comment and DM Now let me return the favour:
I honestly didn't imagine a launch where we'd have a customer registering every couple minutes - or that I'd spend part of it exchanging comments with one of the world's most popular YouTubers. Wild week.
I replied to every comment on our launch - solo builders, CTOs, investors all interested in the same problem from different angles. Here is how it started in February:
Prelint exists because of one code change. An agent ignored our event-driven architecture and implemented a feature completely bypassing it. The code was technically correct, passed all tests. And nobody made that decision - it was just quietly baked into our product.
That's product drift. It's almost never one big bad call - it's micro-decisions nobody notices for 6 weeks. A change in permissions, a "simplified" billing edge case, a dependency nobody approved. Usually it's good code, wrong product.
So here's my launch offer - not a discount - it's my time.
If you're rolling out coding agents and agentic workflows at your company right now, comment or e-mail me at wojtek(at)prelint.com. I'll share the exact agentic workflows and tooling we use internally to manage 50 production changes a day as a small team and I'll honestly tell you which parts you can solve in-house before you need a tool like ours. These conversations were the best part of the launch and I want more of them :)
Also - if you want to see what your agents have been deciding on your behalf, connect a repo at prelint.com Code PH100 gets you 100$ in free review credits this month - it's full speed AI, but with lane assist.
I've watched AI-generated PRs balloon in volume while nobody's actually re-reading the original design docs. Tying review criteria back to ADRs feels like the missing piece most teams skip.
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Thanks, Grayson! That's if there are any original design docs at all! We have to prepare for a world where there's a lot of micro product decisions being made in Claude sessions, in conversations and on Slack. Very very little people sit down now and do a top-down design doc that they ask agents to implement. So we're building for a world where we need to catch these decisions where they happen and serve+structure them back.
My team's biggest AI-coding headache isn't bugs, it's silent scope creep, code that works but drifts from what we actually decided months ago. Tools like this feel overdue.
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Thanks William! Yes. Also, the problem is often that AIs try to add something that genuinely adds value - a feature, design pattern but it just gets baked into the code without a human ever knowing about it - and it creates a spaghetti of the right thing built at the wrong time.
Do try Prelint for your projects and let me know what your team thinks :)
DMs always open if you ever need support
Prelint hitting "product drift" specifically is such a sharp framing. Most AI code tools obsess over syntax or bugs, but the thing that actually scares me is the AI quietly building something slightly off from what the product was supposed to be
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Thanks Yibo!
When I first started writing about product drift in February, I wasn't sure if it wasn't too niche. At the time we were one of the very few companies that had fleets of headless agents doing engineering. Now it seems to be picking up so maybe we got it right 😅
The exciting thing is that we built Prelint for ourselves - we had good technical code review tools but they detected if the code was technically correct, not if it was following our architecture decisions and design patterns. When I launched Prelint originally we were surprised how efficient it was at surfacing these small implicit decisions that coding agents make on your behalf.
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
I've been using Prelint for a few weeks now, and it's been a great experience so far. Solid tool, cool to see you finally on PH. Good luck with the launch!
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Thanks Daniel, do let us know if there are features you'd like to see next!
Congrats Wojtek and team on the launch!
We've had both human and AI PRs pass every check and upon prod review we end up reversing old decisions, excited to try this out.
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@guzmanpintos Thanks for the support Guzman! I'll make sure to make time for an onboarding session with your team soon!
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AI-generated code will only become more common, so governance tools like Prelint are going to be must-have!
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@roopreddy I tend to agree!
I'm on a trip through Poland and I found your QR code poster next to Kraków Zabłocie station. This seems like a product I actually want. Thanks for the free credits.
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This is super cool! For a couple days I was wondering if anybody would see them!
Feel free to message me at wojtek(@)prelint.com with any feedback you may have :)