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Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Re: Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Post by quaffapint »

A year or so ago I was working on a similar product as FeaturePeek - a platform agnostic deploy preview and collaboration tool. I decided not enough people would want that outside of their hosting platform and shelved it.

Clearly I was wrong and clearly why you should talk to more potential customers before you make decisions. Congrats to Netlify and FeaturePeek.

Re: Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Post by kevincox »

GitLab has a similar feature: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/#visual-reviews

It does require a bit more work to set up (which is unfortunate, since they already use the URL could they use that to map back to the PR?) but seems basically the same if not quite as polished.

Re: Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Post by kenrose »

kevincox wrote: post #3

GitLab has a similar feature: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/review_apps/#visual-reviews It does require a bit more work to set up (which is unfortunate, since they already use the URL could they use that to map back to the PR?) but seems basically the same if not quite as polished.

> but seems basically the same if not quite as polished.

That describes many of GitLab's features.

Re: Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Post by pistoriusp »

This is awesome! I love that everyone can now give feedback. Developers, designers, people who write copy, etc.

And that the feedback is piped into a single source of truth: GitHub (of course, if you use GitHub). It's so easy to loose track of these things when they're not near the code.

Re: Next-generation Deploy Previews, plus Netlify acquires FeaturePeek (YC S19)

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Post by pistoriusp »

quaffapint wrote: post #2

A year or so ago I was working on a similar product as FeaturePeek - a platform agnostic deploy preview and collaboration tool. I decided not enough people would want that outside of their hosting platform and shelved it. Clearly I was wrong and clearly why you should talk to more potential customers before you make decisions. Congrats to Netlify and FeaturePeek.

To be fair to yourself this is probably a lot more than a year's work, but also... just because it exists doesn't mean that another shouldn't version shouldn't exist either!
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