Comment by rvz
17 days ago
> If you’re a small team with a simple app and straightforward tests, it’s probably fine. I’m not going to tell you to rip it out.
> But if you’re running a real production system, if you have a monorepo, if your builds take more than five minutes, if you care about supply chain security, if you want to actually own your CI: look at Buildkite.
Goes in line with exactly what I said in 2020 [0] about GitHub vs Self-hosting. Not a big deal for individuals, but for large businesses it's a problem if you can push that critical change when your CI is down every week.
I know this is off topic, but that homepage is a piece of work: https://buildkite.com
I get it's quirky, but I'm at a low energy state and just wanted to know what it does...
Right before I churned out, I happened to click "[E] Exit to classic Buildkite" and get sent to their original homepage: https://buildkite.com/platform/
It just tells you what it Buildkite does! Sure it looks default B2B SaaS, but more importantly it's clear. "The fastest CI platform" instead of some LinkedIn-slop manifesto.
If I want to know why it's fast, I scroll down and learn it scales to lots of build agents and has unlimited parallelism!
And if I wonder if it plays nice with my stack, I scroll and there's logos for a bunch of well known testing frameworks!
And if I want to know if this isn't v0.0001 pre-alpha software by a pre-seed company spending runway on science-fair home pages, this one has social proof that isn't buried in a pseudo-intellectual rant!
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I went down the rabbit hole of what lead to this and it's... interesting to say the least.
https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/nothing-works-until-you-m...
https://www.reddit.com/r/branding/comments/1pi6b8g/nothing_w...
https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1petsis/comment/nsm...
Hello mate, Head of Brand and Design at BK here. Thanks for the feedback, genuinely; the homepage experiment has been divisive, in a great way. Some folk love it, some folk hate it, some just can't be bothered with it. All fair.
Glad that the classic site hit the mark, but a lot work to do to make that clearer than it is; we're working on the next iteration that will sunset the CLI homepage into an easter egg.
Happy to take more critique, either on the execution or the rabbit hole.
Great of you to accept critiques, but I don't think there's anything more I can add.
You brought up Planetscale's markdown homepage rework in one of those posts and I actually think it's great... but it's also clear, direct, and has no hidden information.
I'd love to see what happens to conversions once you retire this to an Easter Egg.
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I did a BK search earlier in the article and ended on the same page, decided I couldn't be bothered to play those sort of games and clicked away. The GPs link actually looks rather interesting so I'll investigate, so take this a hate-it-folk vote.
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oh wow, that's not good.
Would love to hear more from you on why