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Re:Clusters Against Humanity – Game for horrible people who work with ... on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @12:29PM (#44814227)
OMG. This is hilarious.
Re:Show HN: Portia – A stateful Crew AI alternative, with auth and 100... on Monday July 14, 2025 @12:28PM (#44562021)
Interesting - What's the biggest difference between this and Crew AI?

Show HN: Pulse – Maintain healthy OpenSearch and Elasticsearch clusters

Posted by zevir on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @09:12AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://pulse.support/

Hey HN - Pulse (https://pulse.support) is a platform that’s making it easy for teams to maintain the health of their OpenSearch and Elasticsearch clusters.Key features (this is not just 'another monitoring tool'): * Proactive monitoring to detect cluster issues before they impact cost and performance * Actionable recommendations for resolving potential issues that are detected * Cluster health...

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Re:Preevy: Easily deploy ephemeral preview environments to AWS/GCP/Azu... on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:28PM (#36776198)
Wow. this looks really useful. Have you tried it?
Re:Ask HN: Can you suggest some free side-project hosting solutions? on Monday May 22, 2023 @08:45AM (#36030712)
There's a pretty good writeup here that might be helpful - https://dev.to/livecycle/how-to-host-your-side-projects-for-...
Re:Ask HN: What unique opportunities are there in tech and content cre... on Monday April 10, 2023 @06:36PM (#35518224)
what kind of content do you think these types of engineers appreciate most?
Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and context switch... on Friday April 07, 2023 @08:40AM (#35480988)
Important topic! Totally agree that context switching has a heavier cost than most people realize. That's also why so many product/dev teams are optimizing for tools that improve dev productivity and collaboration. Here are a few other links that you might find interesting: https://livecycle.io/blogs/humanitec-dx-study/ https://livecycle.io/blogs/context-switch/

Ask HN: Good reviews for front-end devtools?

Posted by zevir on Monday January 09, 2023 @08:01AM
from the ask-hn dept.

We've released an SDK (sdk.livecycle.io) that helps front-end teams collaborate better and do reviews faster by adding a Figma-like review experience to PR preview environments.I'm looking for people in the FE/Jamstack community who are open to reviewing the product.Are there people you know of/follow that do a great job with these kinds of reviews?Does anyone here fit that description?Open to...

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Ask HN: What are the best minimalist, text-centric blogging platforms?

Posted by zevir on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @07:19AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have lots of written content organized under main categories and tags (multiple tags per category). Im looking for a simple site builder/template that allows me to present this in a clean, minimalist but functional way without all the fancy bells and whistles that the mainstream site builders promote.Any help would be very much appreciated!!!Thanks!

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Re: on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:59AM (#33595923)
I asked representatives from 200 dev teams around the world how well their developers & non developers communicate & collaborate with each other while building products. Here's what I learned along the way.
Re:Show HN: We just enabled Vercel's preview comments on our docs page on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:50AM (#33504219)
You might want to check out what the team at Livecycle is working on. They just rolled out their SDK to add visual commenting/collaboration on top of your existing preview environment - https://www.sdk.livecycle.io/signup
Re:Ask HN: Is there a tool / product that enables commenting on HTML e... on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @05:56AM (#32329674)
Check out Livecycle (https://livecycle.io/). I'm part of the team there and it sounds like it could be the tool you're looking for, since our aim is to make the review process more organized, clear and collaborative for front-end teams.

The platform lets teams collaborate on top of PR preview environments where all relevant stakeholders can comment with text, screenshots, video captures, and by easily editing HTML/CSS elements, as you mentioned you wanted to do.

All review comments are organized in the Livecycle playground (with relevant notifications for playground collaborators) and also synced back to Git where developers can see them in full context.

So using Livecycle, your team will be able to clearly collect UI/UX feedback from everyone, and avoid unnecessary tickets and emails. The whole process becomes transparent and collaborative (for both technical and non-technical stakeholders).

It takes just a few minutes to set up, and at no cost. We're available and happy to help and answer any questions and also to tell you about our upcoming rollout of an SDK...

Ask HN: Can any front end developers help out?

Posted by zevir on Sunday July 31, 2022 @10:13AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm trying something new by asking the HN community for some help. Let's see how this goes.I'm working on a startup called Livecycle - http://livecycle.io/ - a platform that adds a contextual collaboration layer on top of PR preview environments.Our current offering generates collaborative preview ends per-PR.We’re now working on an SDK so that we can add this rich collaboration to any existing...

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Ask HN: What are 'deploy previews' (ephemeral environments) good for?

Posted by zevir on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @03:12PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Does anyone use deploy previews (AKA 'preview environments' or 'ephemeral environments') on a regular basis to see/share github pull requests?What platform do you use for this?What are some use cases/workflows in which this capability helps you the most?What's missing from these solutions that you wish they offered you?Thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:40AM (#32178175)
LOL. True..
Re:Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:39AM (#32178166)
Thanks for these insights. I think this is a great approach. The question is, how to best facilitate these short/demo reviews without creating too many context-switches and interruptions for everyone. We're actually working on a platform that tries to solve this (https://livecycle.io/) by generating instant, collaborative PR preview environments. So the kinds of reviews you describe can happen async and in context. Do you think this approach would work to facilitate the reviews you outline here?
Re:Ask HN: How to get developers to try your product (in a non-spammy ... on Sunday July 17, 2022 @06:59PM (#32132362)
I'm talking about products intended for devs, developer tools. I'm asking about ways people found for getting early adopters to try it and provide their feedback.
Re:Ask HN: How to get developers to try your product (in a non-spammy ... on Sunday July 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#32131039)
Great advice. Thank you.

And If I had to choose for the purposes of my question, I'd say front end developers specifically

Ask HN: How to get developers to try your product (in a non-spammy way)?

Posted by zevir on Sunday July 17, 2022 @03:53PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Everyone knows that developers hate it with a passion when people try to sell stuff to them.But many developers are also very generous in testing new products and offering candid feedback to the makers.My question is - what is the cheat code for striking that balance? What gets developers to sign up and try your dev-oriented product in an authentic way? - Are there specific platforms or...

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Re:Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:36PM (#32129674)
I didn't see it until now - thanks for sharing the link!
Re:Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#32129669)
Interesting. How big is your company? Are you in person or remote? I wonder if it depends on the setup and profile of the company...

Ask HN: How to get developers and UI designers to work well together

Posted by zevir on Sunday July 17, 2022 @05:15AM
from the ask-hn dept.

For those working in tech/software development teams - do you also find that there's a lot of tension between developers and designers?They need to work together but it always seems like a challenge. From the tools they prefer (Figma vs. Github) to the pace/workflow to the language and communication.What are the biggest pain points you've seen?What are some great tips for bridging the gaps...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you hate most about code reviews? on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:32AM (#31999032)
Thanks! Do you think it would help if you had a live preview environment that came with every PR, so you could better understand the context of the changes you are reviewing?
Re:Ask HN: What do you hate most about code reviews? on Wednesday July 06, 2022 @06:32AM (#31999030)
I agree 100%. The question is how to facilitate this collaboration/compromise between developers. We've actually built a developer collaboration platform called Livecycle (https://livecycle.io/) that lets developers collaborate/comment on a live PR preview environment. Do you think this could help with the pain point you are describing?

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