A brutally honest story of an agency founder who got replaced by Claude, only to pivot and build a tool that automates GitHub PR doc reviews. Big brain move.
Imagine cashing in $5K MRR, only for your client to drop the mic with: "Thanks for all the docs your team wrote over the last 3 months, we fed them to Claude Code, we don't need you anymore." Ouch. That’s exactly how William, the founder of Hackmamba, got completely blindsided. AI isn't just coming; it's already sitting at your desk eating your lunch.
Here’s the TL;DR for you lazy readers: William ran a technical content agency. After getting wrecked by AI, he went through the stages of grief and finally accepted reality. But instead of crying on Twitter, he tracked his team's bottlenecks as a true pragmatic dev.
He noticed that reviewing documentation PRs was chewing up over 10 hours a month. Checking for accuracy, tone, garbage code samples, and missing context was a massive time-sink. So, he dumped all his brain juice, framework patterns, and institutional knowledge into a massive system prompt and birthed Fowel.ai.
This bot hooks directly into GitHub PRs and ruthlessly reviews docs. William straight up said he doesn't give a sh*t who writes the docs anymore (humans or AI), as long as the end product isn't hot garbage. The result? Time spent reviewing PRs dropped by 80%.
When he dropped this story on Product Hunt, the community resonated hard with the sheer honesty of it:
Look, stop arguing about whether ai tools will replace developers or writers. It's happening. When everyone is generating AI slop at the speed of light, the real money is in building the guardrails.
If AI can write the docs in seconds, the value shifts entirely to enforcing quality standards and reviewing the output. Be the bouncer at the club making sure the trash stays out, rather than trying to out-code the machine. Fowel is currently free to use, so you might want to give it a spin and see if it catches your spaghetti code samples.
