Jog

CI for agent-scale dev. 80% cheaper than GH, 70% cheaper than Blacksmith. On dedicated, fast hardware.

[Jog @usejog]

whoa who made this

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

Introducing Jog. CI is the bottleneck for shipping code at agent speed. But it shouldn’t be.

@njaremko and I were spending up to $50,000 per month on CI when building our last product. I was running three macbooks as mini GH runners to save costs. Recently a friend was hit with a $20,000 Blacksmith bill.

Anyway, we decided to fix the problem and crush costs down as far as we could in a managed offering on really fast, dedicated hardware. We think it’s pretty neat and we’re saving people a boat load already.

Have fun, ship more and worry about costs a lot less.

[Jog @usejog]

@laurensnys lol yes

[Jog @usejog]

Our customers go faster on Jog

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

Excited to announce Jog hit 7 figure run-rate in 3 weeks, making us one of the fastest companies to $1M ever. I want to thank every one of our hundreds of customers for entrusting us with their eng velocity.

See you at $100M soon. So many more CI problems to solve.

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

We're 7 figures and doubling every 4 days or so. We're looking for someone who can provide us working-capital line against Stripe payouts. Anyone know lenders who'd be interested?

[Andrew Pulc @AndrewPulc]

thanks @usejog, i can buy dinner today

[Jog @usejog]

🧙

[Shreyas Shinde @shreyas1009]

Started using @usejog for ci of kanaeru software factory and very impressed. Not sure what wizardry lets you 1/6th the cost but keep going @mattgapp 🙏

[Shae Feltz @ShaeFeltz]

@boatdotdev and @usejog really have changed my life

[Nathan Jaremko @njaremko]

If you haven't already migrated to @usejog, why?

[Jog @usejog]

accelerate

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

How fast can you land a PR? How many PRs do you land per day? You can now track shipping velocity in Jog.

Go check out the Shipping Velocity tab on the PRs page.

[Jog @usejog]

all CI eventually flows to jog

[Gain Ai @gainai_labs]

Currently I am using a ton of OVH vps with ephemeral runners and I have a overflow queue that dumps into @usejog

This alone cut my monthly CI from $1700

To sub $450

There is definitely the need of much more intervention from day to day but since I’m currently a solo dev it’s not a problem.

[Jog @usejog]

who approved this??

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

if you’re my 1,000th follower I’ll give you 10,000 minutes of CI

[Jog @usejog]

galaxy brain

[Laurens Nys @laurensnys]

@BenceRedmond does it just go an buy @usejog ?

[辛总 @XINMUGE]

In recent years, GitHub actions have often been in an unavailable state, with long queuing times leading to CI failures. We can consider using third-party CI services as an alternative. Jog @usejog is a good choice, you can earn 5000 credits through my invitation link. https://t.co/TxjIITuatm

[Jog @usejog]

you could say that CI is a hobby of mine too

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

CI's always been a hobby of mine. s/o to T3 Code for justifying my obsession :)

[Jog @usejog]

@theo ci is a hobby of mine too. a passion some would say

[Jog @usejog]

agent-scale

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

We're spending $623,927 per year on CI.

We spend $350 dollars PER DAY on @usejog which would be $1,200/day on Blacksmith or about $1,700/day on GitHub-hosted runners.

We dogfood harder than any company I know.

[Zo @0xZoZoZo]

CI is now #2 on my list of costs, right below tokens.

Our GitHub Actions usage went from $341 in August to $3,096 in October, that's insane!

Had a chat with @mattgapp about some options to save money without slowing everything to a halt!

1) AWS Spot + @RunsOnRunsOn

TIL, Spot is discounted spare computing capacity from AWS. You can rent it cheaper, but AWS can reclaim it when it needs the capacity back.

RunsOn connects GitHub Actions to runners in your own AWS account, so you don’t have to build all the plumbing yourself.

Works even better if you have both GitHub and AWS credits!

2) Rent servers from cheaper providers like @OVHcloud or @Hetzner_Online.

Run your own GitHub Actions runners there, or use @buildkite to manage the pipelines. More stuff to maintain, but worth looking at.

3) Use a managed runner provider like @usejog or @useblacksmith.

Both are pitching cheaper and faster GitHub Actions runners. From my explorations, Blacksmith seems more focused on speed and caching, while Jog is really pushing on price. Both claim savings, so we’ll see what happens on our actual builds.

Probably worth trying them on our actual builds rather than comparing landing-page numbers.

We're going to see a lot more of these popping up! @boatdotdev is another interesting one on the VM/CI side. Will check them out!

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

Had a fun chat with @0xZoZoZo who is shipping like crazy. My recommendation was 1) if you have free money (cloud credits) and you don't have something better to spend them on, then use them for CI or 2) if you don't have free money, then you should consider alternatives like Blacksmith or @usejog. We're very focused on speed and caching btw - check out Jog Max.

[Jog @usejog]

centuries? That’s a lot of CI

[Matt Gapp @mattgapp]

Neato. We're now measuring vCPU time in centuries. A few more weeks and @usejog will tally compute in millennia.

[Jog @usejog]

cha ching that’s cash money back in your pocket

[jenn mueng @jennmueng]

<4m CI that costs pennies has been the biggest productivity unlock recently (shoutout @usejog )

[Jog @usejog]

you’re going to make me blush

[prinz @_0x_prinz]

@usejog 's support team deserves a shout, they are always around to help, getting CI set up was easy, website looks stunning 🔥your paid credit carries over and never expires.

Paying accounts with credit also get 5k free minutes each month (read docs).

https://t.co/YJq2Seypi4