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Ask HN: Is anyone interested in hosted CI (Jenkins) for iOS / Mac?

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I'm currently building a service, as it something I myself need. However I would like to know opinion of other iOS/OS X developers.

I'd like to know what you think on pricing plans, etc. Any feedback is welcome.

Website in development: http://hosted-ci.com/

Thanks in advance!

Vladimir

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I'm building a new website, and I know that I definitely want to use Jenkins for CI.

However, with all the infrastructure stuff that's needed for a software organization, having all of these services hosted quickly becomes a nightmare to manage in itself?

By infrastructure stuff I mean all of the following and more (and the decision to run it yourself or have it hosted): - Hosting - Amazon EC2 or Rackspace - Bug and Task tracking - Bugzilla - Version control - Git (Github private costs $/month) - CI - Jenkins - Deploy - Heroku (hosted) vs Capistrano scripts (DIY)

Because I like to do pretty much everything myself and save money whenever I can (I have been hosting several websites from my home desktop on dynamic DNS w/ freedns.afraid.org for years)--I am just about to finally give in and actually rent a VPS from Rackspace.

Knowing that all of these are services will always be needed (or at least, should be best practices) for collaborative software building, I would much rather build these out and customize them for myself for the years to come.

The only reason I'd switch over to hosted solutions is if I or someone on my team got too busy to maintain it in-house, and if the cost savings were justifiable in switching over.

After using Jenkins CI at my last company, I really enjoyed that experience, and absolutely must have it for all of my future projects. On my list of infrastructure stuff, CI comes after hosting and source control as a basic necessity, so it should on average cost the same or less than those.

I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.

Oh, one more thing to add: Google Apps is free for up to 10 users, so arguably, email and collaboration is even more important than the other infrastructure stuff. Paying for a luxury when something even more basic is free? Hmmm...

> I hope I'm not being so cheap and parsimonious as to offend you, but I'd like to see a version of your service offered in the $15 price range without much sacrifice in quality/service.

There are two main reasons for high cost: 1. iOS / OS X projects have to be built on Apple hardware. 2. CI is resource intensive task, so not like very many users can share single machine.

I'll think on making a smaller plan though. Also for non-Mac projects $15 plan would work for me.

Thanks for that clarification, it makes more sense.

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