YC Blacksmith v4
Y Combinator
CI bottleneck 0:00
Blacksmith runs infrastructure for continuous integration, the checks developers use before shipping code. As agentic coding tools produce more code, validation becomes the bottleneck, not writing.
Founders and approach 1:01
The founders came from Waterloo and Toronto, not DevOps. They saw CI as slow and awkward, and built a cloud tuned for CI workloads, using fast gaming CPUs and caching.
Growth and scale 5:31
The company grew from a few hundred servers to thirty people. It now supports customers like Langchain, cuts waits from 15 to 20 minutes to 10 to 15 seconds, and is working on autonomous QA.
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