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Show HN: Livecycle – Get visual feedback, in context, on every pull request
Hi HN!
This is Assaf, Matan, and Yshay from https://livecycle.io/ https://livecycle.io/
Livecycle enables dev teams to collaborate and comment in context, on top of any preview environment. Using Livecycle, developers get clear feedback earlier in the release cycle leading to higher-quality products, a faster release cadence, and fewer context switches and misunderstandings.
Livecycle builds and pushes a dev-like environment for every branch in your repo (or, if you prefer, you can bring your own environments). Any containerized application will work, and support for multiple containers via docker-compose is coming soon. You get a unique, shareable link for every branch, which automatically updates for every commit pushed to that branch.
Each link contains not only your deployed environment but also includes:
- A dashboard to view and manage all of your environments and users
- Collaboration features - create screenshots, record audio/video clips, suggest CSS/content changes, and leave comments with rich text and internal threads
- Integration with Jira/Linear (view tickets associated with a PR or create new tickets from comments users left on the environment)
- Integration with GitHub/GitLab - view your build status in the PR/MR (with a link to the environment), comments left on Livecycle will be synced to PR/MR comments so that devs can easily gather feedback from both devs and other stakeholders in one place
- Even more stuff: Slack integration, integrated network, and console logs, etc…
We’re thrilled to see a wide variety of teams already benefitting from Livecycle - large companies, startups, freelance developers, dev shops, and more.
And we invite you to check out how Livecycle can bring value to you and your team.
And please let us know if you have any comments or questions :-)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- jonathan_re 4y agoPreview environments are so useful to iterate quickly. Interesting tool!
- iddan 4y agoEvery time I had preview environments my life were so much better. There's a clear trend in the industry to let teams collaborate on preview environments (like Figma, but on the actual built version)
- assafk 4y agoCompletely agree. Been working with prev envs for the last 5 years and can never turn back
- dvorakfilip1 4y agoCongrats team!
- assafk 4y agoThanks!
- On 4y agoWhat is the difference between this solution and other tools like Render, Fly.io and Heroku?
- assafk 4y agoThere are many solutions, including the ones you mentioned, providing deployment solutions. Some of them also offer Preview Environments, but it's a by-product (some, like fly.io, don't even offer a dedicated Previews feature). Livecycle is focused on Previews, with the purpose of improving the development lifecycle pre-deployment. That's why we built a collaboration layer on top of these preview environments: we think preview environment can help the entire team, not just devs. BTW, if you use a deployment solution that has preview environments (like Heroku), we also integrate with that.
- andrewbaisden 4y ago[dead]
- naubit 4y agoI have used this tool before this announcement (I even wrote a post about using it) and to be honest, it is a really useful one. At least, my main use case is with my non-tech-savvy clients (I work as a freelancer). Usually they don't know really well how to explain the changes they want to the UI but when I installed this tool in our project, they just used the preview environment to modify it with a visual editor and I got the suggested changes as a pull request automatically. So, for me, it has been really useful. Kudos for the team!
- CharlotteSophie 4y agoSounds great! Congrats
- jaidesai 4y ago[dead]
- aantix 4y agoWhat did you use to record your demo?
- yselA 4y agoSound great!!! Congratz
- yselA 4y agoGreat team great product - congratz
- mydriasis 4y agoThis comments section is weird. Looks like you're using sock puppets to boost your own popularity.