first 24hrs of boat CI: - 121 accounts, 229 repos - 19,172 jobs ran, 0 our infra couldn't provision - 7s median wait push -> running - 266 broken runners recovered automatically - 0 overloaded host due to CI users about 10% of our VM time spent last 24hrs was CI!
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@AniC_devOct 28
ciao blacksmith we just made a CI runner so cheap & fast you can scale your CI by 20x on the same budget introducing CI on boat.dev's cloud VMs 1. install boat & run: $ boat ci connect 2. change your runner: - runs-on: ubuntu-latest + runs-on: boat

Oct 29, 2026 · 6:35 AM UTC

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I moved some of our CI workflows to Boat yesterday. Love it, and looove the CLI btw. Congrats! One note: the per-seat pricing model makes less sense for CI-only use cases
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yes we'll have announcements for this
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Damn boat is like the jev of sandboxes
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hell yeah
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Let see if I can jam this into GitCafe tomorrow and get it live
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lfg
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lfg 🚀
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BOAT
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Crazy
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yep
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alright time to add caching and make it faster 😎
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What was breaking those 266 runners?
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Will you only be proxying GH Actions? Or will you be supporting additional CI Engines as you grow (like Vercel CI, Cloudflare/CI, ADO, etc.)?
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yeah we switched too!
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i’m seeing many of my ci gets queued up and doesn’t run
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I am going to make sure I am going to own at least 1% of the runs this weekend :D
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Damng it.. Has anyone come up with some time compression algorithm or upgrade that makes days longer? Way too many cool things are showing up to keep up. My ADHD brain has run on FOMO for the last two years lol
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266 broken runners recovered on their own in the first 24h. was that about what you planned for, or higher?
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signed up immediately after watching @theo video, comparing vs my netcup root server that i reserved for just CI but was hitting a wall in queue CI exactly this week (tokenmaxing arc thanks to t3 parallel threads) let the cheapest and most efficient way to parallelize 5 claude subscriptions win, running comparisons tests by the end of the day
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I need a reset! I hit my 200 starts/day limit :( where’s Tibo when you need him
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Would be happy to have always on or idle boat that can span live previews. Tried to dm but you I can’t !
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