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Better Hub: GitHub UI Overhaul with AI Integration

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Bereket, founder of Better Auth, launched Better Hub to reimagine the GitHub experience. Frustrated by GitHub's cluttered interface and inspired by Mitchell Hashimoto's tweet about the repo main page, Bereket built a prototype that quickly became his team's default interface within a week.

Better Hub is a Next.js application that communicates with GitHub's API, featuring a redesigned repository home, pull request review flow, and overview pages focused on reducing noise. The platform introduces keyboard-first navigation with ⌘K command center, ⌘/ global search, and ⌘I to summon Ghost, an AI assistant that understands repository context and code diffs.

The tool offers innovative features like prompt requests, self-healing CI, and auto-merge with automatic conflict resolution. While considering optional git hosting through collaboration with alternative backend providers, the current experiment explores how much GitHub's interface can be improved without replacing the underlying platform. Better Hub represents an ambitious early attempt to modernize code collaboration through thoughtful UI/UX redesign and intelligent AI integration.