Launch HN: Release (YC W20) – Staging environments made easy

Hey everyone, we’re Tommy, David and Erik, co-founders of Release. ( https://www.releaseapp.io ). Release makes staging environments easy by automatically generating an ephemeral environment for every Pull Request. David, Erik and I have worked together for almost 20 years starting with Erik and I meeting each other at an Internship right out of college. We met David in about 2003 when we were all working for RLX Technologies, which was one of the original blade server companies. Our early days were focused on systems management problems before VM’s were widely used. Interestingly enough a lot of the systems problems we are facing today are similar to the problems faced back then, just abstracted a few levels. Staging environments were hard then and they are hard now. Since then, we’ve all pretty much stuck together, including co-founding IMSafer (detection of inappropriate conversations online for parents) together in 2006. David did take a break from us along the way as he