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Executive Summary

Modern JavaScript monorepos and CI pipelines repeatedly pay the cost of reinstalling dependency graphs and browsers: pnpm’s store is often rebuilt in ephemeral runners and Playwright browser installs can add 20–60 seconds and ~100–500MB of network transfer per job, which compounds across thousands of builds. Frontend and full‑stack teams running cloud CI—ranging from startups to enterprises with tens of thousands of builds per month—see this as both latency and direct per‑minute billing waste; with an addressable market estimated at $15.0B (25M developers × $600/year), even $0.05–$0.30 saved per job scales materially. You could build a focused accelerator that persists and serves pnpm’s global store across CI runners and includes Playwright‑aware installers that validate and skip redundant browser downloads based on lockfile‑stable hashes. A product would ship as an OSS CLI plus first‑class integrations for GitHub Actions, GitLab, CircleCI and Buildkite, with an optional hosted remote store for teams without persistent volumes; target outcomes would be 30–70% lower install times and 10–40% shorter end‑to‑end job durations for typical JS monorepos. Engineering challenges are clear and solvable: robust cache keying, cold‑cache behavior, concurrency/locking across runners, macOS binary differences, storage costs and secure handling of artifacts. Market timing is favorable because pnpm and Playwright adoption are both rising, monorepos enlarge dependency graphs, and per‑minute cloud CI pricing makes small per‑job savings financially meaningful for teams running large test fleets. Competition is medium—CI providers offer generic caches and there are some cache plugins—but few solutions combine pnpm‑store awareness, Playwright‑specific skip logic and cross‑runner consistency; an OSS‑first strategy plus measurable ROI for early pilots could meaningfully lower adoption friction. The strengths are predictable, instrumentable savings and clear GTM partnerships; the work is practical but nontrivial, and this idea is worth pursuing if you can deliver consistent 20–40% build‑time reductions in initial customer pilots.

Executive Summary

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Speed up CI by caching pnpm store and skipping redundant Playwright installs

Executive Summary

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Speed up CI by caching pnpm store and skipping redundant Playwright installs

Executive Summary

Market Validation

Market Opportunity

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