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Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by Xixi »

I'd like to get some early feedback about my new startup, ShiningPanda: Hosted Continuous Integration for Python.

http://www.shiningpanda.com

The goal is to provide a dead simple web service so that you can build, test and deploy your various Python projects, without having to care about setting up servers, databases, build tools, reporting, etc. This includes of course web projects based on django, web.py, werkzeug, etc., but also the associated functional tests based on Selenium.

We are planning to enter into private beta soon, so if you would like to participate, please let us know. If you feel like telling us about what your dream integration service would be like, let us know too, we really want to hear about what our (future) users want!

Thanks in advance! Alexis

Re: Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by Xixi »

faust1 wrote: post #2

i am not into programming but can give you suggestion regarding design element. consider changing the "panda" in orange at banner area. just my personal observation. otherwise your site looks very good.

Thanks for the feedback on design elements, it's important too! What color would you put the "panda" in? Green like the "shining"?

Re: Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by jreposa »

I'm having a hard time understanding what role ShiningPanda would play in our deployment process. Is this a hosted Capistrano type service, but with testing? Or, is it more like Heroku but with EC2/GAE/etc?

Something like "it's the [Heroku|or whatever] for Python" would be much easier to understand how to utilize your offering.

Or, is there really no other comparable service?

Linked: http://www.shiningpanda.com

Re: Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by madflo »

If I understand correctly your message, my buildbot master server and instances could be replaced by your service.

Well, I'm interested.

I'm building a SaaS application for customers in the health care industry. It's a Django project with about a dozen apps. Each app has its own test suite.

I would be interested in the following :

- ability to get some shiny output visualization,

- running some web hooks when a test suite is going nuts,

- ability to customize the environnement for each app (which libs...),

- ability to build swig modules and to link them against binary libs (32bits) before running some tests

Re: Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by Xixi »

jreposa wrote: post #6

I'm having a hard time understanding what role ShiningPanda would play in our deployment process. Is this a hosted Capistrano type service, but with testing? Or, is it more like Heroku but with EC2/GAE/etc? Something like "it's the [Heroku|or whatever] for Python" would be much easier to understand how to utilize your offering. Or, is there really no other comparable service? Linked: http://www.shiningpanda.com

We are not at all like heroku. We build, test, and if everything is ok we deploy to your test/production servers. If we were doing Ruby then we could very well deploy to Heroku.

A comparable could be Bamboo, which is for Java. So you could say we are the Bamboo of Python. http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/

Bamboo itself is not hosted, but I think it is included as a hosted product through JIRA Studio.

Re: Rate my startup: hosted continuous integration for Python

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Post by mgrouchy »

jreposa wrote: post #6

I'm having a hard time understanding what role ShiningPanda would play in our deployment process. Is this a hosted Capistrano type service, but with testing? Or, is it more like Heroku but with EC2/GAE/etc? Something like "it's the [Heroku|or whatever] for Python" would be much easier to understand how to utilize your offering. Or, is there really no other comparable service? Linked: http://www.shiningpanda.com

If I understand correctly, it is a service that provides a continuous integration server, so it means that it would take the place of Capistrano in your deployment process. Instead of deploying with Capistrano, you push to github/bitbucket, etc. , webhooks notify shiningpanda, shiningpanda pulls your source, runs your test suite, if all tests pass, it deploys the code on your hosting provider.
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