Cinder
Build and release tooling for large monorepo engineering teams.
Overview
Cinder makes enormous codebases fast again. Its distributed build cache and release orchestration cut continuous integration times from hours to minutes for engineering organisations in the hundreds.
Cinder joined at pre-seed with a prototype and two design partners refusing to give it back. Build caching is brutally expensive to run before anyone is paying for it, and the program covered exactly that gap.
What Stackpass unlocked
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CI at a price a pre-seed team can survive
Compute and storage credits absorbed the cost of running distributed build caches for design partners long before there was revenue to cover it.
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The developer tooling stack, switched on
Observability, error tracking, and source control perks from the marketplace replaced a five-figure annual bill in an afternoon.
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First ten customers from the network
Four of their first ten paying customers came from founders inside the Stackpass community with the same monorepo problem.
“The credits kept us alive, but the network is what compounded. Two hires and four customers came out of it, and none of it cost us equity.”