You ship alone.
Doesn't mean you have to review alone.
Indie devs and solo founders don't have a reviewer on the team. Your PR opens, your PR merges, your PR breaks production. LGTM's six AI agents are the pair-reviewer you don't have — free, on every PR, on your own OpenAI / Anthropic / Gemini key.
The solo-coder problem
When you're the only engineer on a project, your code doesn't get reviewed. That's fine for hello-world scripts. It becomes a liability the moment users land.
No second pair of eyes
Bugs that obvious to a fresh reader hide in plain sight from you. You wrote it; you stop seeing it. Your own assumption blind-spots ship to production.
Security stuff slips through
OWASP top-10 isn't your day job. SQL injection, XSS, missing auth — these patterns repeat. A reviewer trained on the patterns catches them; a coder mid-feature doesn't.
The 2 a.m. P1 incident
The N+1 query you didn't notice. The null deref under a rare branch. The leaked secret in a commit. Solo means there's no review to catch these before they wake you up.
Review fatigue is real
Even when you DO try to self-review, ten minutes after you wrote the diff, attention is gone. Real review takes a fresh reader — which you can't be.
What changes when LGTM is on
Connect a repo. Add an AI provider key. Open a PR. Three things happen.
6 specialists read your diff
Bugs, Security, Performance, Readability, Best-practices, Documentation. Each one looking for ONE thing. They don't spread attention thin trying to check everything at once — they each go deep on their lens.
The synthesizer merges into one verdict
Approve / request changes / comment. Top-3 findings inline on the PR. A short summary you can read in 20 seconds. The same UX as having a senior reviewer comment on your PR.
LGTM Security scans CI/CD
16 deterministic detectors run on your workflow YAML, Dockerfile, IaC. Catches the supply-chain stuff most AI reviewers miss — pinned actions, self-hosted runner on public repo, secrets in workflows, S3 buckets going public.
Free isn't a trial. It's built for indie scale.
Most SaaS "free tiers" are 7-day trials in disguise. LGTM Free has been designed assuming you'll stay on it.
Reviews per month
20
Resets the 1st of each month. Counter rolls over deletion — anti-abuse, doesn't reset on re-signup.
Agents
All 6
Same Bugs / Security / Performance / Readability / Best-practices / Documentation as Pro.
Security detectors
All 16
Read-only access. View findings, audit log, scan history. Enrolling new repos for monitoring needs Pro.
CLI
Full access
Every command works on Free. lgtm review, lgtm pr, lgtm security audit, lgtm billing — all in.
BYOK keys
OpenAI · Anthropic · Gemini
Bring your own API key. We don't see your provider tokens. You pay the provider; we don't mark up.
No card required
✓
GitHub OAuth signup. Add an AI key when you're ready to run your first review.
The Pro upgrade is for when you outgrow 20 reviews/month OR when you want auto-review on every PR (Pro fires automatically; Free needs a manual click or lgtm review --pr). Stay on Free as long as it works.
For solo devs, the CLI is the killer feature
You don't need a PR to use LGTM. The CLI runs the same agent pipeline against your local diff. Catch the bug before the commit, before the push, before anyone else sees the code.
# Install once
npm i -g @tarin/lgtm-cli
lgtm login
# Now, in any repo, any time:
lgtm review
# Or against a specific PR:
lgtm review --pr 42
# CI-friendly JSON:
lgtm review --json | jq '.findings'No PR needed. Run against working-tree diff. Catch issues before you even open a PR.
No team needed. Reviews on your code, by you, for you. The AI agents don't care that you're the only human in the repo.
Pipes into anything. --json output for jq, shell scripts, CI gates. Build your own pre-push hook in 3 lines of bash.
Same 6 agents as the dashboard. Not a stripped-down CLI version — full pipeline, full BYOK, full security checks.
LGTM is built by an indie dev for indie devs
Single founder, based in India. Same review-alone problem you have — the project that LGTM reviews most aggressively is itself. We're not a VC-funded team shipping "developer experience" from outside the discipline. The Free tier exists because we ourselves wouldn't pay $20/month to review a side project, and we wouldn't want to.
Read the About page for the full backstory.
Indie-dev FAQ
Can I use my own OpenAI ChatGPT Plus subscription?
What does a single review cost in OpenAI tokens?
What if my side project has 30 PRs in a month?
Does LGTM work on private repos?
I'm pre-launch. Should I even bother?
What if I'm only writing Python / Go / Rust?
Your AI pair-reviewer is one signup away
GitHub OAuth signup. 20 reviews/month free. No card. All 6 agents. BYOK on the provider you already use.