I fully expect someone to ask, "So why Lintron instead of Hound?" The answer for us is a combination of things. First, given the large quantity of private repos we have, hosted Hound is not cheap. Hound also has a lot more moving parts and isn't particularly friendly to self-hosting setup. It was almost easier to write the prototype version of our own lint bot than it was to set up Hound. This also just makes things really easy to hack on and to ship other behaviors, that may not be strictly linting but still make sense as PR comments, that Hound didn't envision. It's really just a matter of preference. It's pretty easy to fork Lintron, throw it on your own hosting, and hack it to your liking. Whereas Hound is obviously designed primarily to be a subscription service based around config files.
This is awesome! It's nice to see automated ways to enforce code standards. I only wish this could be integrated with bitcoin so developers who followed the standards (or pimped out their IDEs with linters) could be rewarded.