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CircleCI raises $6m Series A
- patrickod 13y agoSuper excited to see this news and what the CircleCI team have planned. Can't overstate how much I love CircleCI or how much easier it makes my life. Definitely one of the best services I use day to day. Congrats to the team! It's well deserved.
- pbiggar 13y agoI feel like I owe a special thanks to the HN community. You guys were CircleCI's first customers, and we learned almost everything we know about building a business and having happy customers from HN. This community is amazing, and so much of our success is due to you guys!
- shedd 13y agocongrats, Paul & team! Great progress for an awesome product
- entelarust 13y agocongrats! my team and i are big fans of your product
- LogicX 13y agoCongrats Paul! We'll keep spreading the word! -Mike Schroll
- outworlder 13y agoCongratulations! The best thing about Circle for me is how fast it is, but more importantly, how fast it appears to be. Some of it I can attribute to clever tech (running tests in parallel in multiple containers for the same build is something that never occurred to us), but a major part is also clever UX.
- allr 13y agoGood job guys, product looks nice! We currently pay for Codeship, anybody experienced both and have some insights to share? (not trying to start a war here!)
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- heynk 13y agoI personally pay for Codeship for my own projects, and we pay/use CircleCI at up.co. I love both. Both have given us pain in random edge cases where things just don't work, which is frustrating. Both have provided amazing support whenever we needed it. Both have all of the technical needs we require. Both accommodate the exact same Github-based workflow with Heroku & Hipchat. My suggestion: flip a coin. Or choose based on something arbitrary like which website design you like more. They are both great startups that deserve your business.
- benarent 13y agoCongrats Paul, Allen and team. It's been a pleasure to see CircleCi grow into the incredible fast CI service with a real detail in the UX of integrating into developer workflow. Can't wait to see what you do next.
- bensonperry 13y agoWe've been using CircleCI for a few weeks and it's been a great experience. The product is great and their customer service was awesome - they got back to me almost immediately to help me fix a bug on my end. Great stuff!
- dschwartz88 13y agoWe've been on CircleCI for months now and in addition to being an absolutely fabulous product the support has been astounding. Congrats guys, well deserved.
- RafiqM 13y agoCongrats Paul & team :)
- mmanfrin 13y agoAwesome -- hopefully now they can address the memory leak :] (CircleCI is wonderful otherwise).
- saryant 13y agoDoes Circle have a way to give builds more RAM yet? We really liked Circle when we first tried it at Conspire but the 2GB cap meant we couldn't stay with it and we've been fighting Jenkins on a daily basis ever since. Our tests involve spinning up 5-6 JVMs to simulate an Akka cluster so we need a lot of RAM.
- dlowe 13y agoThe limit has since been bumped to 4G. We don't have a way to change this per-customer yet, but we're not as tightly constrained for RAM as we used to be, so we could probably negotiate something if you really need more.
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- akbar501 13y agoWhat issues have you run into with Jenkins? Just curious.
- saryant 13y agoA few times a week is decides to re-download all our dependencies for reasons we haven't been able to figure out. That's the big one we've been dealing with right now.
- namarkiv 13y agoWe faced the same 2GB memory limit with akka, so we moved to our own jenkins instance, no issues since.
- hughes 13y agoCircleCI made possible a fundamental change in our dev process. It is now an integral part of our QA process and is present at every step of development.
- gklitt 13y agoCongratulations! We've been happily using CircleCI as part our test/deploy workflow for a few months. Github and Hipchat integration works great, the web UI is easy to use, and ssh and parallelization are nice bonuses.
- mwarkentin 13y agoWe use CircleCI heavily at Wave. Love their parallelization feature - we brought a 25 minute test run down to 12. We could speed that up another 4x or so if we felt like throwing more money at it.
- fourspace 13y agoCongrats to Paul and the rest of the team! I have been recommending CircleCI to all of my dev friends ever since my first experience with it over a year ago. We had a pretty tricky front end testing setup with our Rails app, due primarily to some bleeding edge javascript interactions that needed to be tested in a headless browser. It took ages to get right locally, so I had zero confidence that Circle would handle it. I set up our repo and promptly forgot about, as I was traveling out to SF for Startup School 2012. While waiting in the lobby of YC for the pre-event dinner, I got an email from Circle (actually, from Paul) that our repo was ready and all tests were passing. PASSING?! Whoa. As I read it, I looked up from my phone and Paul was standing in front of me. I wanted to give him a hug, but I settled for a friendly thank you and a handshake. =)
- caust1c 13y agoCan you share what you like most about CircleCI? What do you hate most about it?
- fourspace 13y agoFor us, it just worked. I'm a one-man engineering team at a startup, so I don't have the resources to devote to running an in-house CI setup. Circle took care of it for us, and their UI and features are just perfect.
- destraynor 13y agoHuge congrats to Paul & Co - great team, with a great product. It's a genuine joy to watch them do well.
- captainmartyn 13y agoCongrats! My experience with CircleCI has been nothing but positive.
- josh2600 13y agoSaw these folks at CloudBeat last year. Thought their pitch was terrible but OMG did I love the product (I still thought they should've won!). Really glad to see they successfully raised a series A. I believe it was Paul who pitched and when I went up to him afterwards I was blown away by how humble, polite and just plain nice he was. Wishing these folks the best of luck :).
- ezarowny 13y agoCongrats! We use you guys and you absolutely deserve it. Also, thanks for the stickers!
- sdegutis 13y agoThis may just be the push I needed to investigate what CircleCI is and what services and/or products it provides.
- base698 13y agoCongrats! Good to see a Clojure based stack going places. We use it and have been super happy with it.
- yoshyosh 13y agoYay! Congrats paul :), keep it up
- barclay 13y agoCongrats, guys. Another big circleci fan here. Can't wait to see where they go.
- BadassFractal 13y agoCongrats!
- tomnewton 13y agoWell done. Great service!
- patio11 13y agoCongrats guys. Always nice to have more examples of "See? We're not all doing mobifotosocialgames." Particularly when they're doing so well.
- joshdick 13y agoInstead, they're helping people doing mobifotosocialgames. It's a good business selling pickaxes during the gold rush.
- nthj 13y agoWe use Circle at my Rails consultancy. They make us more productive, which in turn helps us work from wherever we want—a coffeeshop near home or anywhere in the world. Also, we're using Circle to help with a project for monthly life skills training workshops. Not only will this project save the workshop staff 180 hours a month, but will also make it far easier for trainees to register for the workshop. Circle is, indirectly, working to make thousands of people's lives better each year. Congratulations Circle, we're really happy for you guys!
- takacsv 13y agoAwesome! Congrats guys.
- paddyoloughlin 13y agoCongratulations guys. Great news.
- ejain 13y agoCircleCI is really neat, going to ditch the slow CloudBees build server as soon as CircleCI gets the last remaining issues sorted out. Hope the money lets them hire someone who can write proper docs and changelogs :-)
- desireco42 13y agoAm I right that it only supports github repos? Because however awesome github is, I just prefer not to count how many repos I have. In other words, does it support any git repo? Can't find it anywhere on their pages. Would make me sad not to be able to use circleci, which has straight forward use and value prop.
- merloen 13y agoCongrats, we're a customer and we're approaching 10K builds...
- Dirlewanger 13y agoYour guy's product is such a boon. Can't even begin to count the hours...no, weeks saved due to it. Great to hear it.
- thomaspun 13y agoCongrats Paul and team!