SelfCI
Local CI runner in Developer tools
A free, minimalistic, local-first CI tool that runs your build and test steps on your own machine and can replace pre-commit hooks, according to people who recommend it.
A free, minimalistic, local-first CI tool that runs your build and test steps on your own machine and can replace pre-commit hooks, according to people who recommend it.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Runs CI locally before merging
“That would pair well with SelfCI's MQ daemon, preventing accidentally forgetting about merging in stuff without running the local CI.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust” “I have something a bit like that implemented in SelfCI (a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI)”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust” Better approach than pre-commit hooks
“That looks really cool! I've been looking for a more thought-out approach to hooks on JJ, I'll dig into this.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust” “it replaced my use of pre-commit hooks entirely”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust” Praised as slick, well-executed design
“Love the idea, nice execution and good explanation of what this does and why.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “SelfCI – a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI” “That looks like a much slicker version, will check that out”
Comment from 30 Jul 2026 in “Show HN: A local merge queue for parallel Claude Code agents”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nektos/act | 19 | 18 | 51% | 10 | — | — |
| SelfCIThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“That looks like a much slicker version, will check that out”
“My whole CI pipeline is just a shell script that runs the actual build and test commands”
“That would pair well with SelfCI's MQ daemon, preventing accidentally forgetting about merging in stuff without running the local CI.”
“I have something a bit like that implemented in SelfCI (a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI)”
“That looks really cool! I've been looking for a more thought-out approach to hooks on JJ, I'll dig into this.”
“it replaced my use of pre-commit hooks entirely”
“Love the idea, nice execution and good explanation of what this does and why.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.