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Lessons learned building a tool for developers.

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Mario Visic Señor Developer

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Desktoppr.co

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“Continuous Integration is a software development practice where members of a team integrate their work frequently, usually each person integrates at least daily - leading to multiple integrations per day. Each integration is verified by an automated build (including test) to detect integration errors as quickly as possible.” - Martin Fowler (the smartest guy alive)

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Note: Travis is amazing and I love them. You should use them.

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Ugly Java? Lolwut? Too hard to setup GitHub Pull Requests Status

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Ugly Java? Lolwut? Too hard to setup GitHub Pull Requests Status

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A semi-hosted continuous integration service

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github.com buildbox.io buildbox-agent webhook commit status polling build output

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Not Ugly No Java Easy to setup! GitHub Pull Request Status! Can do what ever I want on
 the server Safe and secure production
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Alright listen up.

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Challenges Rendering terminal output! The agent is a memory hog! Having to do all the things

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Do as little work as possible All the gems (73 in Buildbox)! CSS framework (Twitter Bootstrap)! Deploy onto Heroku/Ninefold!

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Keep your vision strong Don’t forget the goals! Don’t go off on tangents! Why are you doing this again?! Build what you want to exist

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Keep the tech stack simple Don’t do SOA! Don’t scale to your 1 customer! Keep the code ghetto! Use what you know

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Avoid rewrites Ignore all the new shiny things! Just slows you down! Founder code is encouraged

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Don’t write invoicing stuff Invoices are a must for B2B! Generally receipts don’t cut it! It’s such a buzz kill! chargebee.com + Pin Payments

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Launch on the first day After your 10th commit, be in production! Tease out any issues! Get people looking at it! Users can come later! Continuous Delivery

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Regrets Didn’t blog enough! Not enough drip marketing! Didn’t make a video on public launch! Took stuff personally

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Future Hosted Agents (but still secure)! Pipelines! Rewrite agent in Golang! Better IA

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That’s it. I have stickers.