| [I'm a co-founder at http://www.buddybuild.com - we're a cloud platform for building and iterating on mobile apps] Awesome write up. I've always been a huge believer in having a great workflow. Before starting buddybuild, last year, we were going through similar pain trying to set up CI for an app with things like jenkins and travis - so we could work in the simple way our team wanted : eg. One of us hits 'git push' - the team's devices get updated with the newest build, and we all had a quick way to give feedback on the commit. We realised that, like us, most app developers want a great workflow, but didn't want to have to spend a lot of time setting it up and maintaining it. With buddybuild, we've been working with hundreds of open source apps and iOS / Android developers to make sure we can automatically understand and build their apps. The setup experience is usually just selecting the repo, and we'll figure out the rest. Our goal has always been as close to zero configuration as possible. I'm a firm believer these things should just work, and the experience should be, essentially, magical. |