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Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io

We recently launched a Continuous Integration service called drone.io. We wanted to reach out to the community and get some feedback on the service, the pricing, and any other ideas you might have.

Site: https://drone.io

( 12 comments | 24 points | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by cinbun8 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:43PM (#4669936)
* Why are sign ups restricted to google+ and github ? https://drone.io/auth/login

* The layout of the pricing page is odd. Use the plan name as a column instead of a row. Most folks are used to seeing it that way - https://drone.io/pricing

* Do not start by showing the user a free plan. Users scan a page from left to right. Don't give them something they will easily choose right away.

* Get yourself a 'features' page that highlights what you offer in bullet points.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by bradrydzewski on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:58PM (#4670043)
I think your feedback on the pricing page is great, and we'll definitely be making some quick changes to the design later today.

Regarding the Signup screens, I personally appreciate when websites use OpenID or OAuth so that I can use an existing account instead of creating a new username / password. That is why we chose to use Github and Google, and we hope to support more providers in the future (such as Bitbucket). I'd be interested to hear your thoughts.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by w33ble on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:22PM (#4670194)
Offering those options is great and all, but let me create an account with just an email too.

Also, if I'm on the signup page and click the Drone.io logo, it just adds a # to the URL and doesn't go back to the home page.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by codegeek on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:31PM (#4669858)
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by fallingmeat on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:48PM (#4669974)
Looking forward to trying it out with my several Ruby tasks. Would be nice to easily setup a CI test on them. I've tried several before but none have been simple enough to use on a whim. Drone may fill that gap.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by rdwallis on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:37PM (#4670294)
Looks really good. If you add GAE integration, you'll convert me immediately.

I'm on a very slow connection and it's much faster to do a git push than to deploy a compiled application.

Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by bradrydzewski on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:42PM (#4670332)
Check back next week, we should have basic AppEngine integration available. We use appengine ourselves (although not for drone.io), so it is high priority for us too
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by hirose31 on Thursday October 18, 2012 @02:57PM (#4670408)
We use Elastic Beanstalk to host our Java applications. We would also be interested in a build solution that supported our deployments. Would that be possible?
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by bradrydzewski on Thursday October 18, 2012 @06:56PM (#4671490)
are you using GAE for java, python or go?
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by rdwallis on Friday October 19, 2012 @04:16AM (#4672688)
Java primarily, I'm experimenting with Go at the moment.
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by codegeek on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:32PM (#4669869)
Your "Get Started for FREE" button does not really stand out at least in IE8. It looks like another link on the homepage. I suggest you make it more appealing
Re:Ask HN: Review my startup, drone.io by wraithmonster on Monday October 22, 2012 @08:36PM (#4686256)
As an avid Jenkins (Hudson) user, this looks very promising.