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Developers do hate paying for things, but that doesn't mean you cant make a business selling to them. You just need to make a much more compelling offering than
by pbiggar 14y ago
Developers do hate paying for things, but that doesn't mean you cant make a business selling to them. You just need to make a much more compelling offering than they could reasonably create themselves.
For example, my company (https://circleci.com https://circleci.com) makes Continuous-integration-as-a-service, marketed directly to developers. We have a lot of companies using us with incredible engineers (Stripe and Zencoder are 2 obvious examples who have agreed to be listed on our homepage, we have many more). Why - when they can build it themselves? Because we have built a compelling product that is much better than they could do themselves (and in many cases they tried)!
To give you one example, one customer has a test suite that takes 60 minutes on his laptop. He just pushes to Circle when he wants to test, and he gets a result in 13 minutes (blazing fast build servers, plus automatic parallelization)! That would overload a single build server, so they'd have to get a cluster set up. That sounds like fun , but only for the first hour.
- carterschonwald 14y agoWhat is the pricing for CirclCI, I can't find any on your site, and that makes me less intersted in trying it out :-) (and is there support for not github based hosting?) [edit] And I see that you dont support ghc (haskell). Oh well, I guess I still need to wait for Travis CI to roll out there paid version :)
- pbiggar 14y agoPricing is $19/$49/$149 for 1/10/40 private repos. That includes unlimited builds, unlimited test time, etc. We don't support non-GitHub sorry. We do support ghc, and have a few customers using it. I should write a doc for that.
- carterschonwald 14y agocool, what versions of ghc? (or is it haskell platform only?) (I am doing some 7.6.* heavy work, and thats ignoring occasionally playing with just patching GHC itself! :) )
- pbiggar 14y agoHaskell platform at the moment, but we can add things relatively easily, especially if they have debs available (in ubuntu 12.04 or elsewhere).
- carterschonwald 14y agoInteresting. 1) does that give a path towards users providing their own *.deb bundles and thus being able to use their own choice in compiler versions? 2) part 1 is a bit important, I may be doing a lot of dev work against ghc head (or patched versions thereof) in the coming months (though not for another 2-4 months realistically), and unless i can a la carte plug in the ghc version I want, i may a well roll my own thing on top of jenkins and the like :)
- carterschonwald 14y agowhy isn't the pricing listed on the site? That seems a bit odd! :-)
- pbiggar 14y agoIt is silly, yes. You see it when you log in. We're in the process of reworking the front page, and part of that will be getting the pricing onto it.
- MartinCron 14y agoPlease do. Whenever I don't see transparent pricing, I assume it's prohibitively expensive. Also, frictionless CI as a service? You are doing God's work. I hope you succeed.
- jefffoster 14y agoI tried it out and the CircleCI team installed the latest Haskell platform, so I was up and running with cabal tests in five minutes.
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- eze 14y ago"CircleCI" makes more sense than "CircleCi", though both can be found on your website. Congratulations on such a compelling service.