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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026) on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @10:20PM (#47773910)
Hey HN!

I’m building Reviewskits (https://reviewskits.com).

Most startups today use 3+ different tools to manage user feedback: one for testimonials (Senja/Testimonial.to), one for feature voting (Canny), and another for bug reports. It’s a mess of different invoices and fragmented data.

We are building a unified platform for all customer sentiment, starting with a headless testimonial engine.

Why Reviewskits?

    Headless & Dev-first: Instead of heavy, slow iFrame widgets that mess with your CLS, we provide clean APIs and SDKs (React, Vue, Svelte). You keep 100% control over the UI/UX.

    Open-Source: You can self-host it to own your data or use our managed Cloud version.

    Consolidated: One tool for testimonials today, feature requests and feedback loops tomorrow.
The project is early-stage and fully open-source. We’d love your feedback on the architecture or the "Headless" approach for social proof.

Repo: https://github.com/reviews-kits-team/reviews-kits Cloud Waitlist: https://reviewskits.com/

If you like the vision of an open-source, unified feedback stack, we’d appreciate a on GitHub!

Ask HN: Why still embed heavy 3rd-party iFrames for simple social proof?

I was auditing a React site recently and noticed that the 'Wall of Love' widget added 400kb of JS and 3 iFrames, tanking the LCP. It felt wrong. We spend weeks optimizing every pixel, then we throw it all away for a slow, black-box testimonial slider.I decided to build Reviewskits [0] to see if we could move to a purely headless, data-first approach using Bun and Hono.The goal: Fetch raw JSON,...

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Yes, that's a great point. I'm realizing more and more that this is the point I need to emphasize. Thank you for your feedback!

Show HN: Reviewskits – Open-source, headless, and self-hostable social proof

https://reviewskits.com

Hi HN,I built Reviewskits because of a recurring frustration I faced while working for a web agency in Switzerland.Our designers created beautiful, pixel-perfect layouts, but when it came to testimonials, we were stuck with rigid, pre-made widgets from tools like Senja or Trustpilot. Hacking them with CSS to match our UI was a nightmare. When we looked at their API pricing to build our own...

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