VeilStream – Per-Branch Preview Environments

What it does

Preview environments for every git branch — sanitized Postgres, PII masking, and data privacy safeguards for AI agents. Same column rules for people and coding agents. First $20/month free.

$ git push origin feat/tax-round → pr-184.env.veilstreamapp.com Ready Push a branch. Get a live URL running your Docker Compose — with a sanitized database and data privacy safeguards for AI agents. Per-branch environments are a simple idea. These are the parts that make them a hard problem. We handle all of them. Shared staging is how most teams fake this. Migrations collide. Data gets polluted. Each VeilStream environment gets its own copy-on-write instance from a sanitized snapshot of your Postgres — not a live slice of production, and not a second database you have to migrate onto. You keep the Postgres you already run. You cannot copy production as-is. Applicant records, customer PII,…from veilstream.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

# Show HN: VeilStream - Per-Branch Preview Environments ## Optionally with sanitized production data I've been building VeilStream to solve a problem I kept running into: Rigorous evaluation of changes, such that they won't break production is hard. Staging is shared and often broken. Pulling to local setups are a…

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