ReviewLayer - Simple visual reviews for your deploy previews | Product Hunt

Hello Product Hunt 👋

I'm Marc, the founder of ReviewLayer. I’m excited to share what we’ve been working on 👇

On my last job as a web developer, I was really unsatisfied with the handoff between the development and design team. I received a Figma link with a new website design and then implemented it in Next.js.

When I was done, I created a pull request on GitHub and requested a code review from another dev. Because we were using Netlify, a deploy preview was created automatically, and I sent this URL back to the designer.

The designer would then take a look at the site and create multiple screenshots that he annotated with red arrows and feedback comments.

This went back and forth a few times but required a lot of context switching and time on both ends. It was frustrating. Seriously, just the manual work took probably 20min each time 😅

I've been looking for a solution for this for some time now, and found a few tools that looked promising. But those tools were made for marketers. Nothing catered to the needs of developers.

As a dev, I need a great integration with the tools I use – and no tool currently offers this. For me this primarily means integrating with GitHub pull requests and Netlify deploy previews. It should be super simple to set up and complement the normal code review with easy visual review.

I had a similar problem when reviewing the code for other PRs – oftentimes I would test the changes in staging but then write a huge list with feedback (and create my own myriad of screenshots or short videos to explain). This was frustrating, too, because you could either answer all the feedback at once – or not at all.

ReviewLayer solves all of those problems ❤️

🔥 Leave comments directly on the deploy preview or staging ✅ Integrate with GitHub status checks to block merging ✨ Made for teams, made for developers

I found that using ReviewLayer can reduce your feedback loops by 80%. This is a lot of time 💪

ReviewLayer is currently in closed beta, but you can sign up for the waitlist. This is my first launch on ProductHunt, so please be kind 🙏 I look forward to your feedback and sincerely appreciate your support! I'll be here all day to answer your questions 💬

The feature offered by Netlify to get visual feedback on pull requests is really innovative and helpful for developers. It's great to hear that developers can quickly and easily get feedback directly in the browser, without needing to rely on annotated screenshots. I'm curious to learn more about how this feature works and how it integrates with the rest of Netlify's tools. Can you tell me more about the functionality of Netlify's Deploy Previews, and how developers can use it to streamline their workflow?