================================== Speed up my repository launch time ================================== People often ask how they can speed up the launches for their Binder repositories. Binder is a bit different from other cloud services because it builds and launches *arbitrary environments* that are defined in Git repositories, rather than only serving a *single* environment for launches. The extra time it takes to launch is often a result of these extra steps. For some background and tips about how you can speed up your repository launch times, see `this community forum post `_.