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evalship — find the flaws in your LLM evals · Show HN

The demo is excellent: a fake pull request where a "shorter support prompt" makes the bot promise a $150 refund above the $100 limit, with the before/after replies side by side. That single example explains the product better than any headline.
The best insight is hidden in the middle: return 1.0 # don't fail the build on judge errors, an eval that can never fail. That's the "oh no, we do that" moment for an engineer. It should be near the top, because it's what makes someone install the product today.
"Ask your coding agent: Set up evalship.com/setup.md" is a clever install path, but asking my agent to follow instructions from a URL is exactly what security people worry about. The reassurance ("your keys stay in your CI… evalship never copies your repository") exists, but I found it further down, not next to the command.
"60% off forever for the next 9 accounts" appears three times. I can't tell whether the counter is live. If it is, show it changing; if it isn't, a scarcity counter on a launch day is the kind of thing that makes a technical audience distrust the rest.
First fix: put the "eval that can never fail" example right under the headline, and the "never copies your repository" sentence right under the setup command.

Reviewed 2026-11-04.

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