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HTML Redirect is the company blog at semaphoreapp.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2012, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Semaphore - Hosted Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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27mentions?
13HN people?
2012–2015first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 13 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The linked posts are from Semaphore's blog about its CI product, including a post on support for GitHub's Commit Status API. Comments mostly mention Semaphore as a tool rather than praising the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Semaphore - Hosted Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails
    5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-07-10
  2. Ruby version usage in commercial projects, 2014 edition
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-08-27
  3. Capistrano 3 Upgrade Guide
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-11-26

What Hacker News says?

  1. Because you specifically are asking about "services", this is may be slightly off-topic, but I'd be interested in seeing a thread about open-source alternatives as well. When we were first starting out, we used a lot of these services and they were absolutely instrumental to get us going, allowing us to focus on what mattered at the time. But the more we developed our rhythm and workflow, the more we started constan…

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    on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”
  2. Submitted Semaphore - Hosted Continuous Integration for Ruby and Rails as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've been assembling a list of these lately for a book that I'm working on. ( http://startingandsustaining.com ) Some of the categories are fairly loose as some apps don't fit nicely into categorical buckets, but hopefully this is a helpful list. --Browser/Email Testing BrowserStack ( http://www.browserstack.com ) Litmus ( http://litmus.com ) --Bug/Issue Tracking BugHerd ( http://bugherd.com ) Lighthouse ( http://li…

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    on “Ask HN: Tools of the trade, 2013 edition”
  4. Submitted Semaphore introduces a free CI plan for private and open source projects as a story · 20 points

    HN discussion
  5. For all who use Ruby and want to have great CI of private projects today, Semaphore ( https://semaphoreapp.com ) already implemented support for this awesome API: http://renderedtext.com/blog/2012/09/04/semaphore-implements... .

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    on “Travis CI integrated into GitHub pull requests thanks to new Commit Status API”
  6. Submitted A Look Inside Development at 500px as a story · 7 points

    HN discussion
  7. I haven't heard of Uptano, I will certainly look into it. I've been very happy with the features and price of Digital Ocean, and I am not sure how much more I could really save over the already low $45/month. CI is actually the one app we did pay for, we use http://semaphoreapp.com . We love it, has great github integration.

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    on “How we saved over $3.5k a year for our newly launched startup”
  8. Submitted Meteor.js: Getting Started – With Tests as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  9. https://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”
  10. Submitted Why we don't play dirty to market our product as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted A Ruby programer trying out Meteor.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Ruby programmer trying out Meteor.js as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted Ruby version usage in commercial projects, 2014 edition as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted Introducing Organizations – The best wat to menage CI for software teams as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Introducing Continuous Integration For PHP Projects On Semaphore as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Rails Testing Antipatterns: Models as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Rails Testing Antipatterns: Fixtures and Factories as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted Capistrano 3 Upgrade Guide as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted Semaphore is now integrated with Cloud 66 as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Setting up the BDD stack on a new Rails 4 application as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Semaphore CI introducing up to 24x parallelism as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Semaphore report: Ruby version usage in commercial projects as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Introducing RubyGems Mirror as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted Rails Testing Antipatterns: Controllers as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Capistrano 3 Upgrade Guide as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Setting up Jasmine JavaScript tests for continuous integration as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted Introducing CI timeline as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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