Hello Indie Hackers Community!
Hi everyone,
Just a quick post to introduce myself and say hi on this sunny monday morning from Manchester, UK (yes, the rare event that this is has finally occurred!)
I'm David and I'm building https://boxci.dev - a CI service where the builds run on your own hardware. I've been working on this for a (good) few months having got on the front page of Hacker News late last year with a prototype and being convinced that other people apart from me might want a tool like this to exist.
I've come to IH on a recommendation from @mtlynch (hey Michael!) who I'm sure many of you know. After procrastinating on that recommendation for a while I finally checked it out and can see what a he was talking about - a bunch of like minded people helping each other out and having some fun doing so. Looks great!
In fact I've already got a lot of help out of the threads here on everyone's favourite part of building a SAAS - payment processing and tax calculators :-)
Really looking forward to getting involved here - contributing and helping out other founders where I can. So hi, nice to meet you, and happy new week!
Hello and welcome aboard!
Dealing with VATMoss is 🤯
Hey - thanks!
Yeah, it's absolutely awful.
You can use gitlabs ci solutions to run on your own machine for free.
And not sure how the new GitHub actions works exactly but I get that you can stand your own hardware..
You can sure, if those fit your usecase!
Did you consider publishing it in the GitHub marketplace?
Not really, Box CI is deliberately not a GitHub app - it's as decoupled from Github or any other repo provider as possible.
All the integrations do is allow the service<->service communication needed to trigger builds when commits/tags/PRs are pushed, and in turn to set build statuses when builds finish (this allows nice features you'd expect like only allowing PRs to be merged if build passes, etc)