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In regards to needing CI, it appears your project is open sourced. Both Travis [1] and CircleCI [2] both have free tiers for open source projects, worth a look!

[1]: https://travis-ci.com/plans

[2]: https://circleci.com/pricing/

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Thanks. Yes. I had looked at this and since we're an Electron project we have specific requirements and one of those is a MacOS host as well as Windows. I think it's easier to find Windows + Linux for free but not Mac.

Additionally, I think we might not scale on the free tier but not sure yet. I tend to use a lot of CI resources. At work I spend about $500 per month on our CI boxes.

One of the two linked offers MacOS.

Oh nice... looks like CircleCI does now! I think that's new as last time I checked I didn't see it... thanks!

Just re-checked and the MacOS containers cost $39 per month for one...

Check more thoroughly:

> We also offer the Seed plan free (at 1x concurrency) for OS X open source projects.

Discourse is also free and open source. You can run it on a $5 DigitalOcean droplet instead of spending $100+/mo on a discourse.org account. With your $88/mo, you can keep $80 of it after spending a little over $5 in Discourse hosting and taxes. Both CI options are free for your project. $200/mo seems exorbitant for two simple services.

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