Building KiHub — a review platform for KiCad projects

Andrei Man • Peerlist

KiHub is a hardware review platform for KiCad projects, currently built around GitHub. It adds a structured review layer to the workflow hardware teams already use, helping them understand what changed, discuss the design, and decide whether a revision is ready to move forward.With KiHub, teams can:<ul><li>Compare schematic and PCB revisions visually — see design changes in the browser instead of interpreting raw KiCad file diffs.</li><li>Start reviews automatically or on demand — from a GitHub pull request or by comparing any two branches, tags, or commits.</li><li>Discuss changes in context — leave threaded comments pinned directly to a schematic sheet or PCB location.</li><li>Run hardware-aware checks — including ERC, DRC, schematic-to-PCB parity, BOM completeness, and release readiness.</li><li>Set review gates — choose which checks are informational and which must pass before a review can be completed.</li><li>Review BOM impact — generate a BOM, compare changes at reference and grouped-line level, find missing component data, and track order readiness.</li><li>Share reviews outside the workspace — publish read-only links for teammates or external reviewers.</li><li>Keep a traceable review history — preserve compared revisions, check results, discussions, decisions, and activity in one place.</li></ul>For pull request reviews, KiHub posts the review status back through GitHub Checks, allowing it to participate in existing merge rules.KiCad stays the editor. GitHub stays the source of truth. KiHub is where hardware review happens.