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Re:Show HN: Arturo.io – Automatic book builds on GitHub by arafalov on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:20PM (#7831409)
Leanpub does offer GitHub integration, including private Github account access. I am using it right now.

And you can setup a commit hook to trigger the preview build automatically.

Given that common base, I am curious what the specific other difference are. Especially to justify paying for a private repo account.

Re:Show HN: Arturo.io – Automatic book builds on GitHub by ortuna on Sunday June 01, 2014 @09:29PM (#7831439)
Leanpub Github integration instructions are @ http://blog.leanpub.com/2014/04/github-integration.html

They are very awkward instructions. I have yet to use it, so I can't comment on the quality of it. Arturo pushes a build and a diff for each PR(attaches to the link on the orange/red/green dots). This is a start of Arturo and I would love it to be Open Source and Developer friendly, focusing more on the Books + Code aspect.

Re:Show HN: Arturo.io – Automatic book builds on GitHub by arafalov on Monday June 02, 2014 @05:24AM (#7832601)
I got it working the first time, so I guess it is not terribly confusing (for a developer).

It does build all the versions of the document on each push, which I find makes it a bit slower for frequent check-in.

The diff idea is interesting as a value add, especially - I project - for per-diff discussion or so.

In any case, this was not a disparagement. At this point, the more of these ideas we have, the better it is. I just wanted to point out that at least some of the functionality was already implemented somewhere else.