Hi there, so I'm one of the dudes that built this. Just saw in on HN, so figured I'd respond. We built this to combat the pain of testing in multiple locations

Hi there, so I'm one of the dudes that built this. Just saw in on HN, so figured I'd respond. We built this to combat the pain of testing in multiple locations. Sure, it adds an extra second to the start of each test run, and sure, you have to talk to a public database server, but the benefits you get are: - No database server needs to be running on your local machine, vagrant, jenkins instance, or travis CI instance. This means one test configuration and you can run the tests anywhere. - No need to write scaffolding code to make testing work with vagrant, jenkins, etc., again--things just work. It's certainly not suitable for everyone, but it fits my personal use case well, which is why I decided to build it ^^