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Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by GordonS »

andrethegiant wrote: post #30
crohr wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I didn’t know about FeaturePeek, thanks for mentioning. It looks very similar indeed. From a quick look I would say the main differences are that it doesn’t run on servers you control, and is limited to frontend code only? Also it’s pretty expensive with their per-seat pricing ;)

FeaturePeek cofounder here! Glad to see others in this space :-) Yes, our use case is mostly geared towards frontends devs getting design and product feedback from their team. Right now we only spin up frontends (both pure static and Docker-based architectures, which you can of course point to backend services you host), and run in the public cloud (so not tied to your existing infra). By default, environments are pr…

I do find this quite expensive, and per-seat pricing is a turn off - but the overlay tools are pretty slick!

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by GordonS »

crohr wrote: post #2

Hi HN, this is our submission for PullPreview, a way to spin preview environments for any application directly from GitHub to cheap AWS Lightsail servers. No intermediary service involved. ## Context PullPreview’s main use case is for making it easier to review code in branches or pull requests, because reviews with live code are always better than code-only reviews. This means better and faster feedback from reviewe…

This looks pretty nice, though it seems this is a rapidly crowding space (although I didn't know there were any such tools until your post!).

Something I'm wondering about is how other cloud services fit into all this though - for example, messaging services, event streaming services, blob storage, table storage, databases etc?

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by crohr »

GordonS wrote: post #32
crohr wrote: post #2

Hi HN, this is our submission for PullPreview, a way to spin preview environments for any application directly from GitHub to cheap AWS Lightsail servers. No intermediary service involved. ## Context PullPreview’s main use case is for making it easier to review code in branches or pull requests, because reviews with live code are always better than code-only reviews. This means better and faster feedback from reviewe…

This looks pretty nice, though it seems this is a rapidly crowding space (although I didn't know there were any such tools until your post!). Something I'm wondering about is how other cloud services fit into all this though - for example, messaging services, event streaming services, blob storage, table storage, databases etc?

Hello! The first recommendation would be to find a docker image providing a mock for the service you want (e.g. [1]) and if not enough then you could provision those services on demand in an additional step executing before the pullpreview step in the GitHub Action workflow file.

[1] https://github.com/localstack/localstack

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by alexwilliamsca »

Oh it's nice to see how well you've pivoted from PullReview! It's a great idea and I'll be trying it out shortly.. As a side note, @crohr was one of our first beta tester and paying customer of jidoteki.com (now on-premises.com), sadly their PullReview service didn't do as well as planned, but PullPreview seems to be a home run. I'm happy to see them building this service and look forward to watching the development.

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by ffMathy »

Hacker News is a funny thing. I see you made the same submission way earlier, and almost no reception. Now, it is exploding! Congratulations on that!

I am not going to hide that I am totally jealous, being a competitor to you (just in the managed and hosted space, instead of the on prem solution you offer), and launching my version of the same service as yours, Pull Dog (https://dogger.io) just a few days prior to this, with almost no reaction like your first submission.

That being said, I still can't help but think your project is exciting and share your excitement for this. I'll definitely be following the development as you evolve!

Best of luck!

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by crohr »

alexwilliamsca wrote: post #34

Oh it's nice to see how well you've pivoted from PullReview! It's a great idea and I'll be trying it out shortly.. As a side note, @crohr was one of our first beta tester and paying customer of jidoteki.com (now on-premises.com), sadly their PullReview service didn't do as well as planned, but PullPreview seems to be a home run. I'm happy to see them building this service and look forward to watching the development.

Hi Alex,

I think you’re confusing me with the original creators of PullReview. My other venture is packager.io, which you might remember as well. Congrats to you for the continued development of your on premise packaging solution!

Re: Show HN: PullPreview – Deploy previews for any application, on your servers

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Post by alexwilliamsca »

crohr wrote: post #36
alexwilliamsca wrote: post #34

Oh it's nice to see how well you've pivoted from PullReview! It's a great idea and I'll be trying it out shortly.. As a side note, @crohr was one of our first beta tester and paying customer of jidoteki.com (now on-premises.com), sadly their PullReview service didn't do as well as planned, but PullPreview seems to be a home run. I'm happy to see them building this service and look forward to watching the development.

Hi Alex, I think you’re confusing me with the original creators of PullReview. My other venture is packager.io, which you might remember as well. Congrats to you for the continued development of your on premise packaging solution!

Ohhh Cyril haha you're right! Yes of course I remember packager.io. Sorry about that!! In any case, I still find this very interesting and will definitely check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.
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