Bitcoin mining wasn’t on our roadmap...

The last 30 days have been a wild ride. We’ve been building traction, growing fast, and for us it all comes down to one thing: minutes.

With over ~20 billion CI/CD minutes run every year, and we’re determined to grab our share of that pie. So when someone ramped up all our instances — potentially burning through hundreds of thousands of minutes — we thought we’d hit the jackpot.

Well… until GCP flagged it. Turns out they were using CarbonRunner for Bitcoin mining.

Hey ho. On the bright side:

• It was a great stress test of our infra.
• We got a taste of what it feels like to scale overnight.
• And now we’ve got a funny war story for the early days.

The not-so-bright side? Our growth metrics looked insane… until we had to strip them out. Sad times when you’re fundraising and that magical VC "traction 😅.

But that’s startup life. People will push your product in ways you didn’t expect. Some good, some bad. The only thing you can do is keep moving, keep building — and enjoy the stories along the way.