I enjoyed the post, and the startup looks cool as well. I can clearly see the pain point. I think it will be a challenge positioning this product, because in order for a customer to be able to use it, presumably they already need relatively mature DevOps pipelines, in order to give Release(Hub?) something they can deploy/manage. And if I already have automated builds and a CI pipeline, is it really that much more work to automate sandbox deploys as well? Why wouldn't I deploy to my own infra, or some hosted k8s service, or GitLab Auto-DevOps?
I'm sure you've thought about this challenge, so I'm curious what your plans are in terms of adding value outside of "deploy to sandbox" workflows that can be replicated by CI tools and cloud providers (keep in mind that VC-funded startups, presumably your ideal customer, often have $100k+ in cloud credits to burn through). I see data snapshots, so that's a start maybe. But are you working on anything that will be hard to replicate?
I'm sure you've thought about this challenge, so I'm curious what your plans are in terms of adding value outside of "deploy to sandbox" workflows that can be replicated by CI tools and cloud providers (keep in mind that VC-funded startups, presumably your ideal customer, often have $100k+ in cloud credits to burn through). I see data snapshots, so that's a start maybe. But are you working on anything that will be hard to replicate?
(Also, unrelated, but I love the design!)