Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

Hey guys, I can't stop thinking about this idea. So I have 6 years of exp as cloud and devops engineer which means I have spent a lot of time doing ci/cd and stuff. And ci/cd usually runs on cloud which has a cost associated with it. Now i was thinking what if company can utilize the compute of the machines they give to employees to carry out such tasks like ci/cd. Simply put, companies should be able to run ci/cd on employees machines and reduce their spendings. WDYT? if anyone interested we can work on it together.

Don't want to discourage you. I've these questions:

1. Are you targeting startups or enterprises?

2. Do you foresee savings in the range of millions with this approach?

3. What if the ci/cd pipeline takes > x mins? should the laptop be turned on stayed connected to network during this time?

4. In an enterprise, a typical ci/cd pipeline get connected to other dependent services - eg. security pipeline (even 3P) etc. Now, every developer needs to onboard to those services?

1.) Well, both startups and enterprises. both can benefit from reduced costs. 2.) Haven't worked out any figure yet. 3.) I was thinking an agent could run on the laptop/machine exposing compute and making sure it doesn't sleep, also report availability i.e if it can schedule a job or not. 4.) Correct, it should be a drop-in replacement type of thing, where for instance only changing the runs-on bit in github actions should suffice. Machines could became part of a node-pool via vpn? and jobs could be scheduled on the ones that are available.