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I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environme

I'm a Melbourne, Australia based developer that's been working on a product that can launch any pull request or commit into a self contained, sharable environment accessed via a simple link. A few people are working in this space but my product has a few features that others don't have which I can go over. I'm at the point where we use the tool continuously at my day job but I'm fairly time poor to take it beyond that. I'd be looking to connect with others that have built and promoted similar developer tools. Personal homepage: richardson.co.nz

ethanwillis 7y ago
That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?
- Rodeoclash 7y ago
  I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at sam@richardson.co.nz and I'll make sure you get updates.
  - Rodeoclash 7y ago
    Edit: A signup form can be found at https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 if you want to keep up to date.
  - tonixx 7y ago
    Sam, you shouldn't feed the spam bots with your email :) Use a free contact link instead: https://contact.do https://contact.do
nickstrickler 7y ago
I like the idea. Who else do you know of that is working on this?
- Rodeoclash 7y ago
  At least two (another one in Melbourne strangely enough) * https://linc.sh/ https://linc.sh/ * https://featurepeek.com/ https://featurepeek.com/ Both of these are frontend only feature previews however, they assume an available backend to connect to the frontend code. My tool (Stagehand) will preview the entire stack, provided you can run your setup in Docker. Considering the last three places I've worked all used Docker Compose to run the local development environment and Docker in the CI pipeline, it was a no brainer to use it for the previews as well. My main differentiator, aside from running the full stack, you can also run supporting services alongside the preview. In our case, we run an emulated S3 endpoint and a tool to catch outgoing mail (it poses as an SMTP server). This means that if you're testing a piece of functionality that uploads to S3, you can easily complete the action then change to the S3 emulator and see the file is uploaded to the correct place. Likewise with the email catcher, it makes it really easy to see invite emails being sent out, or welcome emails after signup. Other examples might include a frontend to your database, e.g. PGAdmin, so you could directly change the database in the preview then test the result. The original use case was so that I could easily share my work with others in my 9 - 5 job. However, as I've taken more responsibility over the team here I'm using it more for testing others work before it gets merged to master. If anyone would like to trail it, I've made a Google Form here you can put your name on: https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 While the system works and is stable, documentation is ...non existent. I'd need to help you get setup to use the service (and it would give me an excuse to write the docs as I do it)

ethanwillis 7y ago

That's an interesting idea. Is there some way to follow or subscribe to anything for updates?

Rodeoclash 7y ago
I haven't setup a formal mailing list yet but send me an email at sam@richardson.co.nz and I'll make sure you get updates.
- Rodeoclash 7y ago
  Edit: A signup form can be found at https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 if you want to keep up to date.
- tonixx 7y ago
  Sam, you shouldn't feed the spam bots with your email :) Use a free contact link instead: https://contact.do https://contact.do

nickstrickler 7y ago

I like the idea. Who else do you know of that is working on this?

Rodeoclash 7y ago
At least two (another one in Melbourne strangely enough) * https://linc.sh/ https://linc.sh/ * https://featurepeek.com/ https://featurepeek.com/ Both of these are frontend only feature previews however, they assume an available backend to connect to the frontend code. My tool (Stagehand) will preview the entire stack, provided you can run your setup in Docker. Considering the last three places I've worked all used Docker Compose to run the local development environment and Docker in the CI pipeline, it was a no brainer to use it for the previews as well. My main differentiator, aside from running the full stack, you can also run supporting services alongside the preview. In our case, we run an emulated S3 endpoint and a tool to catch outgoing mail (it poses as an SMTP server). This means that if you're testing a piece of functionality that uploads to S3, you can easily complete the action then change to the S3 emulator and see the file is uploaded to the correct place. Likewise with the email catcher, it makes it really easy to see invite emails being sent out, or welcome emails after signup. Other examples might include a frontend to your database, e.g. PGAdmin, so you could directly change the database in the preview then test the result. The original use case was so that I could easily share my work with others in my 9 - 5 job. However, as I've taken more responsibility over the team here I'm using it more for testing others work before it gets merged to master. If anyone would like to trail it, I've made a Google Form here you can put your name on: https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 https://forms.gle/cMB2mDbt5342bQ8P9 While the system works and is stable, documentation is ...non existent. I'd need to help you get setup to use the service (and it would give me an excuse to write the docs as I do it)