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AppVeyor
Company blog · appveyor.com/blogprogrammingsystems
AppVeyor is the company blog at appveyor.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2013, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
AppVeyor is a hosted CI service that HN commenters point to as a free option for Windows builds and open-source projects. The comments discuss the service itself, not any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
#1 Continuous Delivery service for Windows
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What Hacker News says?
> Travis doesnt support the toolchain so Im having to use Gitlab CI in the meantime. AppVeyor has really good Windows images : https://www.appveyor.com/
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on “Visual Studio Code 1.6”Submitted AppVeyor for Linux as a story · 4 points
HN discussionTotally understand that :) Maybe https://www.appveyor.com/ would work out for you? It's free for OSS projects.
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on “GoQt”Submitted Hosted CI/CD with Customizable Build VM Images as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAppVeyor has free Windows CI for open-source projects (which probably would be a good idea to set up for later updates), and they explicitly mention that you can install remote access tools in their build VMs to work on/debug the build: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/rdp-to-build-worker/
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on “Show HN: Aeneas – a Python audio/text aligner”Submitted Show HN: Continuous Integration for .NET developers, like Travis CI for Windows as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Netflix and other companies have created a really rich platform, between logging and monitoring technologies like this; message queueing; deployment; and so on. In the Windows environment there's precious little to compare to. Have you looked at any of the following for the various gripes you mentioned? I came from a primarily Linux background until recently, but I know .net and Windows have good tooling that exte…
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on “Introducing Vector: Netflix's On-Host Performance Monitoring Tool”Submitted We are building hosted Continuous Integration platform for .NET developers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSome popular GitHub CI integrators already do this: http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/deployment/releases/ http://www.appveyor.com/docs/deployment/github
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on “Notepad++ leaves SourceForge”Submitted Cloud-based deployment automation system for .NET web apps with SQL databases as a story · 2 points
HN discussionNot related to this project, but have done projects in Go. In terms of CI runs, AppVeyor[0] is the most popular one, it allows a similar setup to Travis and has most of the functionality too. Build compatability is also great with Go. The only issues I've run into so far are graphical applications which often require different libraries for different platforms. Nothing I've done that's not graphical has ever had com…
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on “Show HN: Rqlite v4.0 – With node-to-node encryption”Submitted Converting a Mercurial Repository to Git on Windows as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://semaphoreapp.com - CI https://coveralls.io/ - code coverage history and various stats http://www.appveyor.com/ - CI for .NET
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on “An excessive list of free services for open source projects”I use Codeship [1] for personal (private) project and Travis CI [2] for open source ones. I had also use AppVeyor [3] for one of my Windows web app project. I chose Codeship since it was the only one (at the time) that had BitBucket integration. The free tier (100 builds / mo) was more than enough for my side projects. In addition, it supports a lot of deployment targets (e.g. ElasticBeanstalk and Heroku). I use Tra…
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on “Ask HN: What CI/CD server/service do you use?”Appveyor ( http://www.appveyor.com/ ) seems like the best solution out there and fits my bill.
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on “Ask HN: Cross-platform free hosted CI server, with GitHub integration?”
