GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures • Hacker News Board

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by daxelrod » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #4

yarper wrote: post #3

Maybe with this 4M they can stop producing workflow crushing bugs. I'm getting a bit tired of explaining to my boss why first he can't search the code because our repo is too big, then search doesn't work in firefox, then when he gets through the diff/file is too large (we've only recently seen the syntax highlighting start to work too). Then after someone does the work, then they can't assign the MR because of glitc…

> Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all Consider me part of the crowd that is very interested. Travis is atrociously bad. Jenkins I've heard some good things about but I have mostly negative experiences with it. Alternatives are needed. And something like gitlab would sorely lack if it didn't have CI integration.

Could you expand on what you hate about Travis? I'm in the process of picking a CI system and haven't found too many negatives about Travis yet.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

umziehennachbar wrote: post #10

free private repos? is this a limited time offer or something you'll stand by forever? how many repos?

They've had this for a while now and is one of the main reasons I ended up using GitLab for some of my side projects. I don't think this is going away I think it's just another part of their business model.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by codegeek » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo.

May be i was not doing something right.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

So this is a little bit "in the weeds" but with the seed round closing back in July for $1.5 million why such a short turnaround for the series A? Is this normal? Considering it probably takes at least a month to close out a round does that mean GitLab went back out to fund raise only a month after their $1.5 million investment?

Not trying to be critical or anything I'm just really curious.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by BinaryIdiot » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #13

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo. May be i was not doing something right.

I think you're comparing apples to oranges. As far as I know BitBucket doesn't offer a self hosted solution but GitLab offers both. In fact they match BitBucket on pricing too, well at least for the free tier. You can host private repos directly on GitLab and BitBucket for free.

The self hosted option may not be right for you especially if you're already using BitBucket private repos. Why did you not try GitLab's hosted private repos?

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by gtaylor » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:19 PM UTC

codegeek wrote: post #13

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo. May be i was not doing something right.

> May be i was not doing something right.

Here you go:

> On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB

I'm not sure it's realistic to expect great performance on a tiny droplet in a budget provider that over-provisions the heck out of these tiny instance sizes.

Spend more than $5/month and you may get better results.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by maratd » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:29 PM UTC

gtaylor wrote: post #16

codegeek wrote: post #13

I tried to use gitlab and was very excited with the self host option. But for a small business, it was too much hassle with setup, installation and the biggest issue: huge memory requirement. On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB, it was too slow. I switched to Bitbucket private repo. May be i was not doing something right.

> May be i was not doing something right. Here you go: > On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB I'm not sure it's realistic to expect great performance on a tiny droplet in a budget provider that over-provisions the heck out of these tiny instance sizes. Spend more than $5/month and you may get better results.

I have a dozen web apps installed on my personal 512MB droplet and they all work flawlessly.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by jobvandervoort » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:33 PM UTC

umziehennachbar wrote: post #10

free private repos? is this a limited time offer or something you'll stand by forever? how many repos?

Unlimited. Unlimited collaborators as well.

We run GitLab.com so we have a reference for a very large GitLab instance that is in heavy use. We do offer paid support for it, but there is also a public, free support forum.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by mdk754 » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

vessenes wrote: post #6

Congratulations. I was just remarking at work that Gitlab is awesome. It's an open source project that 100% does what it says on the tin; we downloaded and installed, and haven't had to worry about it since.

Agreed. They are a shining example of what I look for in a commercial company building an open source product. Self-hosted, community edition with no fundamental deficiencies, hackable, and a CEO with more 3rd party presence (he's always on here in the comments) than anyone could ever ask for.

I only wish it were written in something which compiles native, like C or Go. Not bad enough to switch to anything else however, and it's really just my own personal dislike for Rails/Ruby.

Love the Gitlab-CI integration too, and am excited to see how it grows/improves over time.

Re: GitLab announces $4M series A funding from Khosla Ventures

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Post by gtaylor » Thu, Sep 17, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC

maratd wrote: post #17

gtaylor wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> May be i was not doing something right. Here you go: > On a DigitalOcean droplet of 512MB I'm not sure it's realistic to expect great performance on a tiny droplet in a budget provider that over-provisions the heck out of these tiny instance sizes. Spend more than $5/month and you may get better results.

I have a dozen web apps installed on my personal 512MB droplet and they all work flawlessly.

Are your dozen web apps large, featureful code forge systems?