Runway — Easier and more collaborative mobile releases for teams

This will save so many headaches and miscommunication! Can't wait to give it a go (: amazing work ?makers!

Hello, Product Hunt! 👋 (And a big thanks to @kevin for hunting us!) I’m Gabriel, one of the co-founders of Runway. We’re a team of former app designers and engineers, and we think that releasing mobile apps is a pain. Every release costs you time and unnecessary headaches: context-switching between tools in 20 different browser tabs, manually running through a laundry list of to-do items, chasing down teammates or stakeholders to complete tasks and get signoffs, and pinging back and forth on Slack to check on the status of everything. Runway solves this exercise in herding cats by creating a source of truth behind the madness and putting your releases on autopilot. You connect your existing tools (e.g. Jira, GitHub, CI/CD, Slack, and app stores) and the platform gives you a unified dashboard for understanding the progress of your release, automates a ton of manual tasks from kickoff to release, and handles communication of status and blockers to your team. Some key feature callouts: 🗺 A true picture of feature completeness Issue tracking and version control are both powerful tools for teams, but sometimes it’s difficult to understand how the state of one relates to the other, and the two worlds often get out of sync. Runway does the heavy lifting of reconciling the status of tickets on one side with code on the other, so you can be confident about the state of work going out with the release. 🚂 Release trains, automated Runway features a release train scheduler that can automate kickoff, submit, and release, on a recurring basis. Combined with other helpful automations (bump version, branch creation, default release notes, tagging, and many more), Runway makes your release trains more hands-free and allows your team to focus on development instead of process. 👩‍💻 Never set foot in App Store Connect or Play Console again Runway gives you a unified place to manage everything you tend to do release-to-release in the app stores. No context-switching between Apple and Google worlds or worrying about their changing requirements and UI every time. Plus, design and marketing can contribute without hand-holding or needing to give them access to sensitive tools. 🤝 Make releases more collaborative, according to your process We’ll handle team comms around important milestones via customizable Slack notifications, so you don’t have to. And you can add interactive checklists to Runway that codify tasks that are unique to your team’s release process and serve as both process documentation and just-in-time reminders for task owners. During our early access program we’ve been lucky to already work with industry-leading mobile teams behind some of your favorite apps for food delivery, fitness, finance, and more, and today we’re excited to open up Runway to the wider mobile world! We’d be really grateful for any and all feedback from the PH community, so please comment and let us know your thoughts! 🙏 (also we’re hiring! 👀)

This is a must have tool for mobile teams! It's clear it's built by a team who've felt the pain points themselves. Congrats on the launch @gs_ and team 🚀🚀🚀

We’ve been using Runway at BeatGig for the past few months to ship updates for our React Native app. It’s been an unbeatable experience. After launching our website using Vercel, we grew used to deploying updates to users with a simple ‘git push’. I wanted to bring this same developer experience to releasing our mobile app, where releases are historically cumbersome and slow. So I posted on Twitter asking how it could be done, and someone sent me a link to Runway. With Runway, our iOS and Android releases feel as convenient as Web. The GitHub Actions integration makes it easy to send over-the-air and App Store updates, without disrupting our workflow. The team has also been really responsive to my feedback, adding in special features for React Native in a few days time when we needed them.

Congrats on the launch! Team Beams has been using the Runway for a while and we are really excited to see that you are launching this product to the wider audience! To the mobile devopment teams out there that are thinking if this is worth trying: give it a go! Gabriel and the Runway team are incredible product people who listen to the customers and take every feedback dead serious.

!Runway has been a missing piece in mobile for a long time, I'm glad is finally here! outstanding work ?makers!

Congrats! Love to see how much progress the team has made! If you have mobile engineers on your team they should start using Runway.

Awesome work, team! I've felt the need for this exact tool on multiple teams and apps in the past. Can't wait to try it out.

This really looks great! Congrats on the launch ?makers!

We’ve been using Runway at Gemini for the past few months to ship our React Native app on iOS and Android and have had a great experience. Our team has doubled in size over the past year and we needed a way to improve our release process and create a shared source of truth across the teams. We had seen other companies invest in custom tooling to handle these situations and had even started exploring that option until we found Runway. So now rather than needing to build and maintain custom tooling in-house, we can focus even more on our core products and leverage the work of a team of experts in the mobile release space. The team has also been a joy to work with and quickly answer any questions, are constantly seeking feedback, and are always making improvements to the experience.

Congrats on the launch! It's always a pleasure working with the Runway team. After adopting Runway at ClassPass, everything was smooth sailing for all parties involved in the mobile release process. I'm looking forward to using Runway in future projects and I can't wait to see what other great solutions the team comes up with.

This is a MUST HAVE for your app development teams! Love that Runway empowers the team to spend more time on what matters. Great solution to a terrible process, clearly built by those who have deeply experienced challenges IRL.

We've been using Runway for over a year at ClassPass and it has had a huge impact on our app release process. What used to be a tangle of checklists and Google Sheets and Slack channels and JIRA tickets is now a super streamlined process. Gabriel and team have been incredibly responsive to all of our feedback, often delivering a new feature or bugfix on the same day we ask for it. I truly can't recommend this product enough, congrats on the public launch!

This seems like all my dreams comes true. Expo, slack, notejoy, play store keys and a million crazy tools - Interface with all of them. Wishing you all great success, and hope I see it grow like slack.

Runway has been a key part of our release process at Kickstarter–it's just great to have both iOS and Android releases flowing through the same rails! Really happy to be part of your journey and congrats on getting out of stealth mode 🥳

Congrats on the launch! Hearing from other engineers/friends that use it on their teams, I can say Runway is a game changer!

Every now and then you come across a product that solves all of your problems in a way that seems too good to be true - Runway is that product! For a small team pushing bi-weekly releases on two platforms, Runway is an invaluable tool that that I truly cannot recommend enough.

Getting everyone on the team synced up around a release is a big challenge. Can't wait to try this out!

We've been using Runway @LifeOmic for a few months to release our mobile apps. The tools provided are amazing in helping us automate the release process. The Runway team has been super responsive in answering our questions and helping us use their tools.

Definitely my favorite new product of 2021! We've been working so hard to achieve Continuous Deployment for our Mobile Apps, and Runway paved the last mile of that road for us. Happiness is never having to log in to App Store Connect or the Google Play Store console! And what a surprise to find SSO integration for a product at this stage. That feature allows us to surface the status of our releases to the entire organization on demand. I also can't say enough good things about their commitment to customer service. They are literally ALWAYS available in Slack or to jump on a zoom to answer questions or provide advice. Questions are answered within minutes and any problems are fixed within the hour. This is must have software for any modern, DevOps-oriented mobile engineering team.