We had such little success with the $9 plan. When people upgraded, they generally chose the more expensive option. Knowing this, we removed it to see what happens to upgrade rates. We might even increase the free offering to balance it out, not sure yet.
Pricing is dark art of science, economics, research and “making shit up”. I dunno if this iteration is any better, but we’ll see!
As someone who has either written, or reviewed every single line of code in Buildkite, I can tell you that there is no backdoor. If anything, we are constantly asking ourselves “how can we protect the customer from us in the unlikely event we were compromised”. Also, with how modern software delivery works, it’s impossible for an employee to make a change without someone noticing.
Thanks for taking the time to give us some feedback!
Jenknis has been around forever, and probably will be. It's one of those pieces of software that just keeps on going. Like the movie Grease - sure it's rough around the edges, but it's still pretty damn good - and future generations will still watch it.
People will still write these tools in a weekend - and that's totally cool! They don't have to use Buildbox if they don't want to.
There are varying skill levels out there. Some devs are really happy to install Ruby on Ubuntu, but often have gripes installing Jenkins, managing permissions, etc. And for those "young coders" - Jenkins looks very dated. It's very difficult to navigate, and managing plugins is usually a pain.
Buildbox is a middle-ground between managing Jenkins, and having your CI run entirely for you in the cloud by other services.
You caught us! Well spotted.
We had such little success with the $9 plan. When people upgraded, they generally chose the more expensive option. Knowing this, we removed it to see what happens to upgrade rates. We might even increase the free offering to balance it out, not sure yet.
Pricing is dark art of science, economics, research and “making shit up”. I dunno if this iteration is any better, but we’ll see!