6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Dependabot first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“We switched to using dependabot, which is better, but just makes it obvious how much work it actually is”
mixed · production · chrisfosterelli · 2022-05-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Long-time Dependabot user here and a big fan ... some big pain points for us are”
mixed · production · jacobevelyn · 2021-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use dependabot to prevent our services from becoming the legacy issues that no one wants to touch.”
endorse · production · palijer · 2019-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We (Pixie Labs) have been using Dependabot for a month or two now.”
endorse · production · jalada · 2017-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“once in a while dependabot will say a PHP library is out of date and I'll run the update.”
neutral · personal · edent · 2025-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You can't allow Dependabot to run as a trusted user, which makes it impossible to actually use any of the workarounds”
neutral · production · crooked-v · 2021-08-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?