Show HN: Buildman.io – Cut your development build time instantly
I think you&#x27;re grabbing at straws this with this project, and your &quot;pain points&quot; kinda state that right away.<p>Less fan noise?? Do I really hate my fan that much? Can I even hear it through my earphones? Do&#x2F;will M1 Macs and next gen ARM Windows&#x2F;linux even need a fan?<p>Save battery? How many people are regularly coding their android apps without being plugged in at a desk? Maybe you know more than me, but I almost never code when I&#x27;m not plugged in, and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever bundled on battery. Not that I couldn&#x27;t, I just have no need to. Again, battery is becoming a non-issue for many of us.<p>I think there is some serious flaws in your logic around &quot;time saved&quot;.<p>If you save 30 seconds on every build (30% more than you&#x27;re stating), what&#x27;s the time to upload my code to you, and the overhead in doing that? Then what happens when the build is done? I download the APK? What&#x27;s the time that takes? Have I saved 30 seconds at all?<p>If you&#x27;re saving me 30 seconds 20 times a day, are there not other things I could be doing for those 30 seconds while my computer is building?<p>So, I can pay you to do something that I can do in 30 seconds, and that I do 20 times a day, or I can not pay you, and just do it myself, for free.<p>Now lets take the best case scenario. I can make each employee 10 minutes more effective per day. Is that correct? 
But am I actually going to be able to measure what they are doing for that extra 10 minutes? Am I REALLY going to get 10 minutes more engineering time? If so, that&#x27;s $10&#x2F;day per employee. I&#x27;m paying this person $100&#x2F;hour, do you think I&#x27;m  micro-managing down to the point where I&#x27;m saving $10&#x2F;day. This is also assuming that I&#x27;m paying the person $200k.<p>You&#x27;ve taken a very top down approach in your maths, but you need to also go bottom up.<p>Having said all of that, I&#x27;ll tell you from my experience, we don&#x27;t build 20 times a day. We run dev devices via USB (we&#x27;re React Native), and maybe bundle a few times a week at most.<p>So, now add into your math, how many companies are bundling their app more than a few times per week? How big of a market opportunity is this?<p>So, yeah, you haven&#x27;t convinced me, I&#x27;m not a believer.<p>HOWEVER, do I believe there is an opportunity for a great dev tool to improve development experience? Yes, there is. Do I know what that is? No, I can&#x27;t help you there. But when you find that real need, you&#x27;ve got a great domain name, so that&#x27;s a start. :)