[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.

[mynegation]

Given that this is an acquisition of a 2yo startup by a hosting platform company, looks like you were right on the money.

[pistoriusp]

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!

[glenngillen]

Unless you have inside information on the terms of the acquisition, I wouldn't beat yourself up about what might have been. There's a very broad spectrum of options here between "we like the team and have agreed to put them on payroll because it's cheaper and faster than using recruiters" to "F$%@ you money for the founders". We've no way to know which it is.