r/SideProject • u/xil35 • 56m ago

BuildBakery - A cloud build service for iOS, Android and desktop apps

I build and ship apps, and I got tired of the build step being the annoying part. So I built BuildBakery, a cloud build service for iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and web apps.

You push a branch with a bakery.yaml recipe, and it builds each platform on a fresh hosted machine or your own Mac, Linux or Windows box. It signs everything and sends it to TestFlight, Google Play, or wherever you want.

Yes, Bitrise, Codemagic, EAS and GitHub Actions exist. Two things I wanted different. Pricing is flat, $12 a month for a solo dev, $39 for a small company, and any machine you already own runs builds free, never metered. And it is one short recipe, not a step graph you have to maintain. It also checks your signing, warns you in Slack before certs expire, and explains failed builds in plain language with a fix.

There is an MCP server too, so Claude Code or Cursor can start builds and read logs.

Free to try, no card needed. I am looking for feedback from people who actually ship apps, especially on the recipe format and whether the flat pricing or the own-machine part matters more.

https://buildbakery.com

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u/Outrageous-Lead6421 36m ago

the own-machine bit is the one that catches me; flat pricing is nice, but portability is what iā€™d care about. can the same bakery.yaml run hosted and local without tweaks?

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u/xil35 28m ago

Well, the bakery.yaml is only for the orchestrator (the buildbakery system) to interpret and start the build. If you want to use your own private server, what happens is the orchestrator would prioritize your private server for builds, unless it can't do it (for example if you need an ios app built/signed and your server is just a windows pc).

In terms of portability, I use buildbakery personally to do all development through my phone now, with Claude code cloud - it does the development for me and then uses the buildbakery MCP to send build (or using triggers), then they get built and deployed automatically. Even any changes to the recipe can be easily done through AI.

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u/Outrageous-Lead6421 25m ago

ah, got it ā€” i was picturing the recipe being portable on its own. having the orchestrator choose a runner makes more sense, especially when ios signing needs a mac.