Introducing Ship Guard: The Only Code Reviewer With a Memory
As a skilled backend developer and technical writer, I have a passion for creating elegant, efficient solutions that enhance user experiences. With expertise in Node.js, API design, and data modeling, I bring a wealth of technical knowledge and writing skills to the table. Whether crafting code or crafting content, I strive to communicate complex concepts in clear, concise ways that help others learn and grow.
I built Ship Guard for one simple reason: a team I was on shipped the exact same SQL injection vulnerability to production twice in six months.
The first time was an incident. The second time was a failure not of a person, but of our process.
We did everything by the book. We ran a blameless post-mortem. We wrote action items. We documented the root cause. The document was beautifully structured —and utterly useless. Because a few months later, a new developer made the same logical mistake in a different file, and history repeated itself.
The truth hit me hard: our post-mortems were not broken; our system of memory was.
We had the knowledge, but it was trapped in a Confluence folder titled “Post-Mortems 2025.”
A knowledge graveyard.
And that’s when it clicked the problem wasn’t that developers forget. It’s that our tools don’t remember.
The “Aha” Moment — What If Our Tools Could Remember?
I started asking myself: What if our tools could remember for us?
What if every lesson from a production incident could automatically resurface when we’re about to repeat it?
What if post-mortems weren’t static documents, but active safeguards that scanned our pull requests in real time?
I looked for a tool that could do this. None existed. So, I built it.
And today, I’m incredibly proud to launch it on Product Hunt and Peerlist
Introducing Ship Guard : The AI Code Reviewer That Learns From Your Mistakes
Ship Guard is the AI code reviewer with a memory.
It doesn’t just review your code it remembers your incidents, learns from them, and prevents you from shipping the same bug twice.
The Core Feature: Incident Memory
Here’s how it works:
You experience a production incident say, an unhandled
NullReferenceException.You summarize the incident and add it to Ship Guard’s Incident Memory.
Weeks later, when a new PR introduces semantically similar code (like another missing validation), Ship Guard’s RAG-based system automatically retrieves that memory.
It then posts a detailed comment directly on the PR:
⚠️ “This code looks similar to INC-042, which caused a production outage in April. Here’s what we learned from that incident and how it was fixed.”
No shaming. No guesswork. Just context right when it matters.
Your team doesn’t have to remember what went wrong last quarter.
Ship Guard does that for you.
More Than One Feature: A Full Platform
Incident Memory is the heart, but Ship Guard is a complete platform for intelligent, automated reviews:
AI-Powered Reviews: High-signal, low-noise PR reviews that catch logical bugs, anti-patterns, and risky changes.
Deterministic Rules: Simple YAML-based rules to block TODOs, enforce changelogs, or require tests.
Secure & Async Architecture: Built as a multi-tenant app with BullMQ + Redis for async job handling, ensuring performance even under high webhook volumes.
Private by Design: All code is processed securely; your repository data never leaves your workspace.
Ship Guard plugs directly into your GitHub workflow, it’s like adding an engineer who never forgets.
The Proof — Why You Should Trust This
I didn’t just build Ship Guard for fun I built it because I was tired of the same post-mortem déjà vu that every engineering team lives through.
We’ve been testing it with a few early pilot teams over the last few months, and the results have blown me away:
40% fewer repeat bug incidents across their repos.
PR review turnaround time cut in half.
Engineers reporting fewer “false alarms” and more trust in their AI reviewer.
One lead engineer put it perfectly:
“Ship Guard doesn’t just review code — it remembers who we’ve been.”
That’s the point. We don’t need smarter reviewers; we need remembering ones.
The Launch — And a Personal Ask
After months of late nights, false starts, and too much caffeine, I’m thrilled to finally share Ship Guard with you.
👉 Try it today: shipguard.dev
You can start a 14-day free trial — no credit card required.
I built Ship Guard because I believe our tools should carry our institutional memory for us. Not in docs. Not in wikis. But in the actual systems that guard our code.
If you’ve ever shipped the same bug twice this one’s for you.
Come say hi, give feedback, or tell me what you’d love to see next:
👉 Join the conversation on Product Hunt or Join the conversation on Peerlist
See you there.
— Edet, Founder & Principal Engineer Ship Guard
