http://devver.net<p>Sorry that the service isn't actually available to play around with yet (it's in private beta). If you sign up for our beta list, we'll work to get you an invite as soon as we can.<p>That aside, what do you think of the idea and site? What isn't clear? What questions do we need to answer?<p>Thanks in advance for your help!
Ben
Looks very useful.<p>How about some real world stats, showing that a particular app on a local machine takes X secs to run tests, while with devver it now only takes X<p>I've just started a new project and am really digging into test for the first time. Tests do seem overly slow, but I'm never sure if its something I'm doing wrong or what. Devver might not help me though as I'm on a horrendously slow connection.
I'm a Ruby developer and guessing Devver is for large codebase only, for small code tests are running pretty fast on local machine.<p>A good point would be on the first screen to specify what kind of tests you are supporting: unit tests, rspec, features etc.
Hey, Ben -<p>I'm no developer (actually an interactive copywriter), but I know enough about Ruby to hold a decent conversation.<p>I agree with timmah - you adequately convey <i>what</i> Devver does, but you're not really giving enough of a value proposition. It just needs a little more "sizzle" to show them why they really NEED to use Devver.<p>I'm sure some more coder-types will chime in here, but overall, I think it describes the service very well. Good luck!<p>Kipp
You may want to consider supporting .gems files for specifying additional gem dependencies since that's what Heroku uses. Their customers would potentially be interested in your product also and I couldn't imagine they'd want to maintain two dependencies files.<p>Is there a way to specify how the tests are split across test machines or the order in which tests are run?
I'm not a Ruby developer so I can't say how well it speaks to that market... but in terms of communicating the idea quickly/clearly and seeming credible - it scores very well. The design is good, not exceptional or super Web styling.
Aren't people concerned about sending their code off to your servers? I know that would be a huge issue with many companies.<p>You're basically competing with LSF, which is well-supported but quite expensive. Maybe you should consider broadening to more languages?