Meet Bunnyshell, Startups of the Year 2024 Nominee

Hey Hackers,

Bunnyshell has been nominated in HackerNoon's annual Startups of The Year awards as one of the best startups in North America.

Please vote for us here:

https://hackernoon.com/startups/industry/software-development?stup=66f327b36ea4677e23e48baf + search for bunnyshell

Read more about us below to understand why we deserve your vote.

Meet Bunnyshell

Do you want to ship 10x faster? Bunnyshell is all about speed and efficiency. Developers waste too much time waiting. Our platform removes those roadblocks, allowing teams to test, iterate, and deploy at speeds they didn’t think were possible. We’re here to make development as fast as your ideas. With Bunnyshell’s Internal Developer Platform, we make it possible for development teams to leverage automatic preview environments and ephemeral environments so they can create, test, and deploy faster than ever before.

How Bunnyshell achieved product-market fit

Our users are our biggest asset. By staying close to the people using Bunnyshell, we’ve developed a platform that solves real, tangible problems. We focus on doing things that don’t just make incremental improvements but fundamentally change the speed and capability of development teams.

From fast-growing startups with hundreds of developers to large-scale engineering teams and popular open-source projects like ArgoCD and Sylius, Bunnyshell empowers tens of thousands of developers to streamline their review and testing workflows, fundamentally transforming the speed and capability of development teams.

The evolution of Bunnyshell

Bunnyshell started with a vision to simplify cloud for developers. After we talked with over 500 CTOs and VP Engineers from big companies with hundreds of developers, digging into their challenges to understand exactly what they need, we’ve transformed Bunnyshell into a plug-and-play environment-as-a-service solution that eliminates friction, so DevOps and developers can jump in with nearly zero learning curve and use tools they already know. To put it to the test, we ran a hackathon, bringing in over 700 DevOps pros. They didn’t just try Bunnyshell—they built environments quickly and easily, proving that what we’ve created is ready to scale and revolutionize development.

Milestones and achievements

We’ve been working with engineering teams that have hundreds—sometimes over 500—developers, and Bunnyshell has become a vital part of their workflow. Open-source projects like ArgoCD and Sylius are using it to speed up review and testing, driving faster iterations and boosting overall productivity. We’ve seen Bunnyshell work its way into all kinds of industries, from fast-growing startups to big enterprises, which tells us we’re building something adaptable and valuable. Our goal has always been to create a platform that feels powerful yet simple to use, fundamentally changing how software teams get things done.

Lessons learned

Through countless discussions with CTOs and engineering leaders, we discovered something fundamental: no one wants to learn a new tool just for the sake of it—not even DevOps or developers who are constantly picking up new skills. They want to focus on tools that align with their goals, not add more friction to their workflows. That insight has driven us to make Bunnyshell intuitive and seamless, allowing teams to work with what they already know. We also made it a point for our own developers to connect directly with customers. By having everyone in the company understand the customer’s perspective firsthand, we’ve built a deeper, more authentic commitment to creating something people truly want to use.

What Startups of The Year means to us

It’s a chance to be part of a community of creators and innovators. We’re excited to share what we’ve built and to learn from others who are equally passionate about building the future.

Conclusion

Why did the DevOps engineer break up with the developer? Because they kept saying, "It works on my machine!"

If you’re ready to spin up ephemeral environments in seconds—even for those “how did this get so complicated?” projects—drop us a message. We’re here to make your dev process faster, simpler, and way less painful.

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