The last week was fantastic for
@WarpBuilds
- we saw all time high usage (again), and also introduced new github actions runner sizes - up to 32 vCPU (looking at you rustaceans 🦀) with even better performance!
- 2, 4, 8, 16, 32x instances on arm64
- 2, 4, 8, 16, 32x instances
@Uber_India
, the ride back from Bangalore airport was not quite what I expected. The driver was drunk and drowsy. I had to pull the car over to the side and I drove all the way home. Pic with the driver in the rider seat passed out.
You need to fix this
@Uber
,
@Uber_Support
Uber safety team promptly called back about 20 hours later. They said I shouldn't drive a cab because that's a safety issue. And that they'll educate the driver whatever that means and might terminate the driver if there's recurrence.
#sorrynotsorry
@UberINSupport
@Uber_India
If it is true that people buy things because of what they make one feel,
@copy_ai
definitely has my money.
Finally tried it after having followed
@PaulYacoubian
's journey for a few months and I was 0 -> 🤯 faster than the new Model S hits 60.
📣 Argonaut update: we're pivoting.
For over 2.5 years, Argonaut has been at the forefront of simplifying cloud infrastructure management and automation. Our mission was ambitious: to create a broad product capable of serving a diverse range of companies. With a great team
@mitchellh
We're making
@WarpBuilds
for exactly this.
Drop in replacements for Linux runners on x86-64 and arm are live. Way more powerful and flexible.
Windows and MacOS support is coming in the next month.
Runners are the first step - there's so much missing around the entire CI
@jarredsumner
I'm the founder of
@WarpBuilds
- we are the most stable on the market with super quick runner start times, fast perf, and unlimited scaling/concurrency.
Try us out!
I'm super excited to launch Argonaut on Product Hunt!
Argonaut helps engineering teams automate DevOps on their cloud.
This gives teams robust infrastructure and automated deployments, within minutes instead of months!
More details here - via
@mwseibel
Switching to using
@dagger_io
is reducing the container build time from 🥁 2m to 45s ⏰
Not just this, the whole "commoditization of CI" is now properly underway and it will unlock great dev ex instead of lock-in.
They're doing something magical ❤️
Launching WarpBuild on hacker news today
The orange site can be a tough crowd but I am looking forward to putting WarpBuild in front of a very relevant audience ⚡️
@UberINSupport
- DM'ed the details.
@dkhos
- this driver behavior needs to be caught and handled as it is a very serious safety issue.
This is most common to and from airports at night in India. Having a person checking for this before starting trip should be doable.
@Uber_India
I am super excited to introduce WarpCache!
This has been one of the most anticipated features from
@WarpBuilds
.
Why did we build this?
Users constantly had issues with Github's cache being super slow. On top of that, the cache sizes are limited to 10GB.
This is a deal breaker
I'm surprised no one has built a niche business around self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. Getting a self-hosted machine is pennies on the dollar compared to the GH pricing and I'd pay a premium to have it turnkey. Am I missing an obvious reason why this doesn't seem to exist?
When we started on the Argonaut journey, we got 1-2 friendly customers while building out the MVP. But then, we stopped selling.
I was delaying launching with reasons like “we don’t have self-serve yet” or “this feature will make for a nice launch”. It took a while to come to
Is this what “market pull” looks like?
A huge lesson we incorporated from day 0 with
@WarpBuilds
is to make onboarding simple. We went through 3 iterations and made it *very easy* for people to get started.
Since we opened up WarpBuild to users and 4 days of actively
That's something
@Arun_Vinayak_S
pushed for and it made a huge difference at
@atherenergy
- to both the culture and the output.
People working to that high bar may curse it in the moment but end up being super proud of what they'd built.
It’s a secret weapon how much you can improve a product team simply by having higher standards. People respond extremely well to having higher expectations of them.
We had started building the product over 2 years ago. We have had customers for a majority of that duration.
The product we are building is complex and the vision we have for it - for Argonaut to be the single destination for internal dev activity - is very broad.
To deliver on
We just launched on Hacker News!
We've built a powerful internal developer platform to simplify software ops and to manage infra and app deployments easily with Argonaut.
Show us some love and join the conversation on Hacker News!
Customers love the attention to detail and the overall
@atherenergy
product, so much that 50 of them went 350km to a different city and evangelized the Chennai launch -
Reminds me of the love Twitter has been showing
@Superhuman
of late, yet to use it.
We just went live on Launch YC. Our mission is to deprecate this old XKCD gem :)
Check out our launch here and support us there!
This is just one more of the many many ways how
@ycombinator
gives companies a boost.
Our revenue yesterday was more than 2x the previous highest daily revenue.
Deeply grateful to all the customers who have trusted us with their Github workflows.
We just launched on Product Hunt today. I've launched on PH ~4 times now and this will be the last time.
Here's why:
🔊 Most of the engagement is fake. There are currently 45 comments on my post, and ~half of them are from actual humans. The rest of them are AI summaries of my
@branch_gg
really is something special.
Been using it for a while now and it simulates the "walk up and tap people on the shoulder" thing that engineers hate PMs for so darn well.
But seriously, it's a must have for every startup.
Zoom and Meet are just so clunky in comparison
In the last month alone,
@WarpBuilds
customers spawned more than 630,000 VMs.
This was our 4th full month since launch.
Just grateful to all our customers who've trusted us with such an important piece of their infrastructure 🙏
@mitchellh
The folks at Cirrus have some pretty cool OSS tools as well ❤️.
Interestingly enough, we launched MacOS runners for Github Actions in private beta today with this week. DMs open for access.
This is in addition to cheaper and faster runners for x86_64 and
Today, we’re announcing important Heroku updates. These include an interactive product roadmap on
#GitHub
, support programs for students and nonprofits, as well as phasing out free product plans. See what the future of building on
#Heroku
looks like:
We haven't even talked about this feature in the product yet - on the website, or in the docs.
It's fantastic to see folks discovering it and trying it out! 🙂
The latest version of
@WarpBuilds
is awesome. Warpinsights is what Github promised to deliver but never will. Give it enough permission and it could even render Github Runners statistics 🧐
2023-12-15 update
Revenue last week: $213
Revenue change WoW: +484%
Workflows MTD: 15210
Customers added this month: 125
@hackernews
was a huge boost last week - the numbers were way beyond what I'd hoped for.
I'm planning to standardize the numbers and do a weekly update
Is this what “market pull” looks like?
A huge lesson we incorporated from day 0 with
@WarpBuilds
is to make onboarding simple. We went through 3 iterations and made it *very easy* for people to get started.
Since we opened up WarpBuild to users and 4 days of actively
We did a Show HN to launch the product and got a free load test in return!
Overall, everything held up and the launch went better than I hoped - we even peaked at
#3
on the front page. I'll post a breakdown once things settle.
Thanks for all the love and conversation.
There
Launching WarpBuild on hacker news today
The orange site can be a tough crowd but I am looking forward to putting WarpBuild in front of a very relevant audience ⚡️
Meet
@suryaoruganti
, Founder of Argonaut (YC S21), building the future of cloud infrastructure and app deployment automation. He has built and led product and engineering teams across a variety of domains over ten years.
#DevCon2022
- March 25th-26th, 2022
📣 WarpBuild now has runners that make CI workflows lighter on your wallet than ever - with Spot Runners.
Our enterprise users spend $X0,000 monthly on Github actions, and they have a wide variety of use cases and workloads, with even more emphasis on cost optimization.
To
We had a phenomenal March!
Revenues were 257% of Feb and we onboarded some of the best companies in the industry. They run over 30,000 CI pipelines on WarpBuild every day!
These are the most interesting learnings from March:
- We are able to predict, with very high confidence,
We couldn’t be more optimistic as we enter 2024. A big thank you to YOU - yes, you - for being with us on this journey!
The first half was tough - we tried everything under the sun to get Argonaut in as many hands as possible. We tried newsletters, launches on HN and Product
Truly grateful for the YC community, and our customers who trusted us with their production infrastructure (and since haven't looked back 🔥)
This was made possible only because of an insanely good team who doesn't take no for an answer 🌟.
YC S21's
@argonaut_dev
is a single pane for engineering teams to automate app and infra deployments to your cloud accounts in minutes.
They're now live on Launch YC:
🙏
Seeing such approval and user love never gets old. This kind of unsolicited word of mouth is the dream 🙇♂️
On another note, we definitely should make more noise about the feature lol
my fav product in the CI runner space
@WarpBuilds
is so humble.
I personally would write 2 blogs for that 1 line changelog lol
the other day I was still ranting about how hard it is to host LM model, yet in another space we have a player that treats it like brkfast. underatted
WarpBuild - Fast runners for light speed builds and light weight bills. You can sign up on the waitlist and get 10,000 build minutes free. I can't wait to build this together with all of you
#buildinpublic
I have immense respect for the people who sweat it out to shave that last 0.5mm from the phone's thickness. So I don't use a case.
That respect is currently at odds with the frequency with which my phone is dropped - once in 1.5 years.
The phone is now Spider-Man themed 🤘
It might just be an hour for you, neighbour, but that might be the thing that keeps that founder going for another day.
Thanks to everyone who's been helping out 🙂
May the force be with you.
Putting 1+2 together, my cats are responsible for me starting Argonaut (), which happened 1.5 years after cat adoption.
Introducing the new cofounders for Argonaut:
The CMO (Chief Meowing Officer) and the CPO (Chief Purring Officer)
With all the improvements around pipelines, new UX, and simpler dev ex, a launch is in order.
Check us out on
@ycombinator
's Launch YC!
@Argonaut_Dev
: Simple, flexible deployments of apps and infra to your cloud.
Slow down to go fast - it sounds stupid until it isn't.
That's how we managed to reduce the support volume by ~80% while usage is exploding!
We have a huge roadmap and get continuous requests from our users. We are a small team too. However, we decided to have some slack and
The most important feature of any startup is execution speed. I'm super proud of the velocity and impact that our tiny team ships each month. Here's what we shipped in Feb -
We just went live on Launch YC!
We save engineering teams months of boring work and automate provisioning of infra and app deployments to your cloud – in minutes!
And you don’t even need a dedicated devops team.
Story time! 1/
We just launched with YC!
Deploy apps and infra to your cloud in minutes with Argonaut -
We’ve been building at a blistering pace and can’t wait to get the product into more hands!
The
@SignozHQ
team has built a wonderful product! Some of our customers use it and are loving it.
Self hosting the tool on
@Argonaut_Dev
is a common ask for us so we put together a guide >>
LAUNCH WEEK DAY 1: Container Layer Caching for 2-5x faster builds.
This has been one of the most requested features on WarpBuild for a really long time. We took our time to perfect it and ensure it works across our BYOC and Cloud runners without having to change anything on the
There wouldn't be half as much shouting if hashicorp had switched vault to BSL but left Terraform as open source
Why?
Terraform has become a standard, distributed and remixed by 1000s of tools. Now they're all interwoven with BSL and no one knows what that really means
🚢 Late April release note!
- Deploying Go & Python apps to AWS Lambda
- A more streamlined user experience
- Upload .env files directly for adding environment variables to your application
Check the full list of updates here:
The WarpBuild team is insanely fast at shipping and weekends are no exception.
Our changelog from today will blow your mind. If you are using Github actions, check it out 👀
Did y'all know that you could shift+click or Cmd+click a bunch of tabs in
#Chrome
to select them and move them to a new window and group and stuff?
Why am I discovering this only now?
#TIL
Software engineers in the next 5 years will have super powers.
We see the beginnings of that today already with how effective Claude Sonnet 3.5 and GPT-4o are, as code copilots.
As these tools help with writing code and makes that more efficient, more time is spent on the
Do you use / need GPUs for running tests in Github Actions?
Gauging interest to see if we need to support this use case - Please retweet for reach!
Drop a note below if you're interested.
This is so cool
@atherenergy
! It's not often that scooters are rated in top gear's best cars list 😂
"And if you’re concerned about two-wheels, we recommend buying two units instead of one."
Excited to announce Ubuntu 24.04 support on WarpBuild runners!
`ubuntu-latest` runners will still point to 22.04 to prevent disruption for the next few weeks and will cutover to 24.04 in sync with Github upstream.
OpenAI is building search. It's likely to be built leveraging bing Infra.
Google still has the distribution advantage because they own the browser. Gemini is built into Chrome's address bar (coming soon) and search.
OpenAI doesn't have an option but to build a chromium
Turns out engineers from companies at all stages want the same thing from their infrastructure:
🕹️ full control
🏭 automation
👥 collaboration
🚫 zero overhead
It also turns out that making this with good UX is hard. So much respect for
@vercel
and
@Cloudflare
🙌
In week 1 of 2024, we started coming back to life.
Here’s what happened in the week preceding Jan 08, 2024 -
💵 Revenue: $139, +18% WoW
🛠️ Workflows run: 7718, +71% WoW
⏰ CI minutes run: 30248, +76% WoW
🤝 New customers: 15, +25% WoW
There are some huge product improvements
We have lots of updates today:
🤑 Argonaut now has a full AWS cost reporting functionality. It is free for everyone to use because putting good cost reporting behind a paywall is uncool. Read more here:
📩 Our Cloud Bulletin newsletter is out: I love
Got a bunch of users over the weekend thanks to
@mitchellh
's tweet and started getting throttled by container registries 😅
That was a fun all-nighter to mitigate that disaster.
The biggest (only?) moat for SaaS startups is the product of execution velocity and iteration based on customer needs.
Here's what we shipped in the past ~2 weeks:
1️⃣ ARM64 runners use new processors that are ~25% faster using Graviton3 instances.
2️⃣ x86-64 runners use new
@anmolm_
A common tradeoff between one quality hire vs a lot of hands for doing adhoc stuff. Usually doesn't end well and leads to more work in the long run.
🚨 Persistent CI pipelines 🚨
One of the biggest cons CI providers ever pulled was convincing developers that every pipeline needs to be ephemeral.
Persistent environments can deliver 🔟 times faster build times by caching dependencies and resources.
With Git flow, where
We just released support for GCP and launched on Product Hunt!
This was amazing not just for the new capabilities it offers users but because of the muscle we developed as a team.
The product development rhythm and velocity is just insane. Couldn't be prouder of the Argonauts!
We are live on Product Hunt! 🎉🎉🎉
Here’s what’s new!
🏗Provision infra that just works – on your AWS or GCP account
🚀Deploy apps in one click
🌏 Third-party integrations and self-hosting
And deploy in minutes!
Check out our Product page.
🚀 Boost your
#EmailOutreach
with our AI-powered Google Sheets template ft. GPT-4! 🤖
Input the recipient's email & researched notes, and get a beautifully crafted customized email. 🎯
Send with 1 click from within the sheet! 💌
RT for template.
Demo:
The ShowHN went way better than I'd hoped for.
We got:
- Amazing customers
- Teams that were way bigger than expected
- 2 sleepless nights to fix teething issues
- A super pumped team rejuvenated from the pivot
I needed to setup internal dashboards for analytics way sooner than
@mitchellh
@ryanfoxtyler
I believe they deprecated support for MacOS runners after GitHub announced support for larger Mac runners recently.
Disclaimer: I'm building in the same space and we're adding Mac, windows runners soon.
LAUNCH WEEK DAY 2:
35% faster boot times for runners.
Runner boot times are now 35% faster, with most starting within 36s from scratch.
We're just beginning on the optimization and there's a long way to go but "perfect is the enemy of shipping".
We had to get creative to work