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Show HN: GitSwipe, Inbox zero for GitHub notifications

gimenete — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:02:16 +0000

Hi HN,

I built a small app for myself.

I was drowning in GitHub notifications and needed a faster way to triage them and focus on what actually matters.

So I built one. It's available for iOS already and soon will be available for Android.

Would love feedback. Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46981796

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New comment by gimenete in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

gimenete — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:01:47 +0000

https://gitswipe.com/

A mobile app for triaging GitHub notifications in seconds. Available for iOS and Android starting next week.

New comment by gimenete in "Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?"

gimenete — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:08:17 +0000

Electron was originally named Atom Shell https://www.electronjs.org/blog/electron/

Atom Shell/Electron was from the very beginning something you could use separately from Atom as a framework for creating desktop apps using Chromium/Node.js.

New comment by gimenete in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

gimenete — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 05:21:14 +0000

This is not an alternative to GitHub but an alternative frontend. The backend is still GitHub.

New comment by gimenete in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

gimenete — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:37:42 +0000

My main goal is to offer a more modern and smoother experience than GitHub, add some features on top of it like push notifications, triage of notifications, a better editing experience,… and integrate the desktop app with your local git

New comment by gimenete in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

gimenete — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:21:33 +0000

Thanks!

Good question. I don't have now right now but I can prepare one soon. In any case I store zero information from users. When you are logged in traffic goes directly from your browser to GitHub.

New comment by gimenete in "GitHub pull requests were down"

gimenete — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:41:46 +0000

I don't remember clearly where we moved them. It was probably to something owned by Google (because GitHub uses Google Workspaces) or Microsoft (for obvious reasons).

New comment by gimenete in "Why is GitHub UI getting slower?"

gimenete — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:14:41 +0000

I suffer it and that’s why I’m building https://githero.app

Btw, I worked at GitHub for 3 years and they are very aware that slowness is a big issue throughout the whole product. There was a year long cross team effort to improve things but the main goals were not achieved IMO and it shows.

New comment by gimenete in "GitHub pull requests were down"

gimenete — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:10:33 +0000

I worked there for 3 years and yes GitHub development happens on github.com. Of course there’s ways to deploy and rollback changes while the site is down but that’s very unusual. The typical flow happens in github.com and uses the regular primitives everybody uses: prs, ci checks, etc.

The pipeline for deploying the monolith doesn’t happen in GitHub Actions though but in a service based in jenkins.

Fun fact: playbooks for incidents used to be hosted in GitHub too but we moved them after an incident that made impossible to access them while it lasted.

New comment by gimenete in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

gimenete — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:12:35 +0000

I'm working on an alternative frontend for GitHub https://githero.app/

The focus is on providing a better experience: faster, with smoother interactions, with higher information density and a lot more focused on your daily work (with features such as bookmarks and drafts).

It's web-based but there will be also desktop apps (thanks to tauri) that will integrate with your local git.

If you start using it and want to ask for feature requests or notify bug reports please go to the discord server: https://discord.gg/RHCJvUSbr5 Thanks!!

New comment by gimenete in "How we grew from 0 to 4M women on our app, with vertical machine learning"

gimenete — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:05:25 +0000

Very interesting article. It's impressive the engineering effort you are making here.

New comment by gimenete in "Nighthawk: Debug iOS apps remotely from your browser"

gimenete — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:27:56 +0000

We simply haven't decided the price yet. It's free at this moment and we will decide a pricing based on how the service is used.

Thanks for the feedback.

Nighthawk: Debug iOS apps remotely from your browser

gimenete — Thu, 12 Mar 2015 15:26:25 +0000

Article URL: http://mobilenighthawk.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191350

Points: 23

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New comment by gimenete in "Show HN: Dev Toolbelt - Handy micro-tools for developers"

gimenete — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 19:04:25 +0000

Email sent :)

New comment by gimenete in "Show HN: Dev Toolbelt - Handy micro-tools for developers"

gimenete — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 18:21:28 +0000

Good idea. I've never done a chrome app before so I could learn things in the process.

Nevertheless you can clone the repo and open the HTML files in your browser. It's only static html and javascript.

Thanks!

New comment by gimenete in "Show HN: Dev Toolbelt - Handy micro-tools for developers"

gimenete — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:58:09 +0000

I was tired of wasting time looking for online tools all the time to pretty print a JSON to inspect it, encode/decode strings, convert from one markup language to another, checking hashes, etc. For some tasks I was usually using the interactive console of some dynamic language such as python or node but it wasn't easy enough.

So I've made a static web page that you can use online or download to your computer with all those tools and much more. Personally I have that as home page in my browser :)

Show HN: Dev Toolbelt - Handy micro-tools for developers

gimenete — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:57:50 +0000

Article URL: http://gimenete.github.io/devtoolbelt/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8619053

Points: 8

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New comment by gimenete in "Ask HN: Idea Sunday"

gimenete — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:55:57 +0000

Something like this? http://www.iron.io/worker

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gimenete — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:34:48 +0000

You can use http://backbeam.io It supports mobile-only development with SDKs for iOS and Android as well as web development and server-side logic.

Disclaimer: I work in the company behind it. If you have any questions we will be glad to help you out. By the way, the SDKs are Open Source and we are working on a "community" release of the backend for our customers to not be afraid of the vendor-locking.

New comment by gimenete in "Backbeam: backend-as-a-service for web and mobile developers"

gimenete — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:08:34 +0000

Currently we are using Redis to make the service as fast as possible. Redis gives us a lot of power to improve our query engine. More features on BQL (Backbeam Query Language) are planned so you can make very complex queries very fast. This is mandatory for mobile applications. Other solutions offer very poor query engines so many times you need to do several requests in your mobile application in order to fetch all the data you need. We work hard to avoid that.

For big projects (> 50Gb data) we are going to combine Redis with a disk-based database. We are testing this integration right now.