A visual CI/CD system
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Over a year ago I started Actionforge, a managed/self-managed visual CI/CD platform. Just for fun, because I like building and experimenting with dev tools. Back then I thought the user would be a human with a keyboard and a mouse.These days I rarely write pipelines. I mostly write specs, an agent dumps 500 lines of YAML, Python and a Makefile then I get my artifacts. The amount is overwhelming and a liability, and I stop trusting what I just merged. So I pivoted my CI/CD project toward more visualization, analytics and data aggregation, so engineers can see what agents and the pipeline produced, the flow, steps, data. Where it fails. With that I have a better mental model instead of a blob of code.The goal is better observability, and pipelines that explain their own failures back to the next agent. And also with a personal focus on UX and design. My project supports Perforce P4, Git/GitHub and GitLab, so quite flexible.Would love to hear your impression.I'm also very interested in your CI/CD horror stories, and how you use them these days. Any input is much appreciated!P.S. Code is public and provides GitHub Attestations.
HN · launched Apr 22, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views
Niche: visual collaboration and ideation tools · 54 launches, 5 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
No Building a full visual CI/CD platform requires secure distributed job execution runners, container sandboxing, pipeline DAG graph resolution, and real-time streaming of execution logs.
What it would actually take: A real implementation needs a distributed agent runner network (Docker, Podman, or microVMs), an asynchronous DAG engine for pipeline step orchestration, and an event-driven control plane using WebSockets or gRPC for real-time visualization and log streaming. The frontend involves complex interactive node-graph canvas manipulation (React Flow / custom canvas). It demands deep systems engineering, kernel sandboxing security, and distributed systems design.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: gisia
Concerns raised: Unclear value proposition from website, CI YAML configuration complexity/discomfort
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 356 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #225 of 357 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
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