@mattpocockuk: GitHub actions are a super easy way to get started with software factories 1. Essentially free sandboxes for public rep…

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Matt Pocock explains how GitHub Actions can serve as an easy, low-cost on-ramp for 'software factories' — free CI sandboxes, issue/label-driven agent tasks, PR automation, cron jobs, and observability — before committing to dedicated infrastructure.

GitHub actions are a super easy way to get started with software factories 1. Essentially free sandboxes for public repo's 2. You already have a login 3. Create tickets (pieces of work for the agent to do) as issues 4. Use labels to trigger actions, which create PR's 5. Actions can apply labels, which create loops 6. Cron jobs (albeit not very accurate) for running daily jobs 7. Simple observability for seeing what went wrong Great for messing about with software factories before building them on your own infra
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GitHub actions are a super easy way to get started with software factories

  1. Essentially free sandboxes for public repo’s
  2. You already have a login
  3. Create tickets (pieces of work for the agent to do) as issues
  4. Use labels to trigger actions, which create PR’s
  5. Actions can apply labels, which create loops
  6. Cron jobs (albeit not very accurate) for running daily jobs
  7. Simple observability for seeing what went wrong

Great for messing about with software factories before building them on your own infra

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