Show HN: Gocd – a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool that runs on your dev machine

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Found: September 21, 2025
ID: 1502

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Show HN: Gocd – a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool that runs on your dev machine I built a small project called gocd because I wanted an easy way to deploy changes from GitHub pull requests without spinning up a full CI/CD stack.

The idea is simple: instead of setting up runners, servers, or cloud infrastructure, you can just run it on your laptop (or a small server). It integrates with GitHub issues and PRs, automates builds and deploys, and makes it easy to access the running app remotely (e.g. over something like Tailscale).

For me, this solved the problem of quickly testing and deploying code from issues/PRs in a lightweight way. Existing CI/CD systems felt like overkill for that use case.

Repo: https://github.com/simonjcarr/gocd

I’d love feedback from the community — especially on whether this minimal approach to CI/CD is something others would find useful, and what features you’d expect in a tool like this.

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