Idea validation: Hello folks…
Idea validation:
Hello folks,
I am a developer working in for a software editor, I started noticing that in such companies there are many test and QA environments that runs different versions of the product.
I am thinking of developing a SaaS product, that would summarize all needed information about live test environments (servers) : links to web interface, git commit number and details, application version, reservation informations, metadata, sys info ...
But I should convince clients to include my library (code) in their build management software that will send data to my servers periodically.
Can this be a good idea ?
Thanks for your feedback
Hi khorchanov, I like some parts of the idea. Before going deeper, I would like to question/shape use case.
Personally, I like the idea of links. In one of the startup I bookmarked all links for different environments in the browser in different folders. I had links to databases, servers and various parts of the system. Having nice page with them would be handy.
In regards to other information, I guess this might highly vary depending on the dev stack (version control system, frameworks, language, dev pipelines) and company. Do you have particular stack in mind?
I would definitely test idea with lot of people before investing time into it, exploring what they would find handy to collect and why. Push/pull decision for data gathering can come later.
Interesting idea for technical analytics perspective.
To convince clients yes ... at the beginning my suggestion is just build trust and reputation in developers and DevOps field then Customers will come to you by selves.
Good luck!!
Thanks for your reply,
I even think to opensource my library that they have to include, for more trust ...
Good approach for starting point with less development resources.
Like sentry for example free bug tracking system but if you want some extra features you need pay for it.
Best
Glad to help