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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by Trundle »

choward wrote: post #93
spdustin wrote: post #69

I have a (perhaps) more incendiary take on this kind of thing. I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None. As a business owner, I know damn well there are some products or services that need a little "taster" offered to a potential customer to get them even modestly interested. Existing paying customers? Why would you spend money to acquire customers that you've already acquired. You had your re…

> Promotions are by definition a form of publicity or advertisement There it is. People are pissed off that an ad is being disguised as normal Hacker News post.

Everything announced by a company on their website, every feature list, every display video, every write up by the press, every review, is promotional activity. Anyone that is pissed at this particular instance because it's disguised as "normal" when it's actually dirty "marketing" should have a good hard think about how they believe the incentives behind information sharing work.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by awinter-py »

sytse wrote: post #49
awinter-py wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks -- didn't realize they added an artifacts key to the CI yaml.

You're welcome. To read more about build artifacts please see http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/build_artifacts/README.html

I'm sure you hear this a lot, but thanks & keep up the good work. I'm grateful for all the great open source tools I use, but you guys are in the upper echelon for making consistent forward strides without breaking too much.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by vonklaus »

spdustin wrote: post #98
spdustin wrote: post #69

I have a (perhaps) more incendiary take on this kind of thing. I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None. As a business owner, I know damn well there are some products or services that need a little "taster" offered to a potential customer to get them even modestly interested. Existing paying customers? Why would you spend money to acquire customers that you've already acquired. You had your re…

FYI, the above response was related to the below comments about existing DO customers getting screwed out of a $10 promotion, one that wasn't even featured prominently on the Gitlab site. I wanted to show my support for DO and Gitlab here, and thought it best to do so as a new top level comment. I honestly didn't consider that my comment would end up above the others.

i love DO and I have just started using gitlab. they're both great. it even makes sense to offer existing customers a credit in this industry because with redundancy and just private/personal deployments ect people often have accounts at DO, AWS, Azure and Google, maybe even rackspace or an IaaS provider like heroku or engineyard.

I know your comment was in favor of DO, and mine is as well in a dif light. Winning a primary customer or "engagement" is big.

Digital Ocean retired a bunch of credit I had. I emailed support and asked for ot back amd they gave it to me. Sort of a hassle, but you know what? Digital Ocean is going against the biggest providers and provides simplicity and community and I love them for it.

They help new devs learn. They're acquisition strategy was hiring a content creator as a 1st hire to write tutorials and build a community.

Another credit and better integration reminds customers why they stay with them (and gitlabs why they are a great offering).

I like gitlabs and digital ocean. As an intermediate dev, it is a perfect ecosystem. I jave heard there are some security or package issues, but for me, I can get what I need done.

Simple API.

Simple Pricing.

Amazing Support.

Great Community.

So i use them. They're credits keep me saying great things about them because I rarely have money so this goes an extra bit.

Its prob worth $10 to them that I tell every beginner to use DO and regularly tweet thanks to then

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by __P »

spdustin wrote: post #97
vertoc wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a little confused... you say "I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None." but that's exactly what they are doing... the $10 credit is only for new customers to DO

At the time, the comments page was filled with venting about existing DO customers getting the $10 shaft.

Maybe when replying to a comment, you should stick to the reply button.

:P

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by true_religion »

spdustin wrote: post #69

I have a (perhaps) more incendiary take on this kind of thing. I have no problem with promo codes for new customers. Zero. None. As a business owner, I know damn well there are some products or services that need a little "taster" offered to a potential customer to get them even modestly interested. Existing paying customers? Why would you spend money to acquire customers that you've already acquired. You had your re…

> Existing paying customers? Why would you spend money to acquire customers that you've already acquired.

I don't know about this, plenty of companies are continuously hassling me to expand my services in exchange for 1-2 month discounts, or offering trials on new services.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by true_religion »

the_ancient wrote: post #100
Matt3o12_ wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they have German customers, they are bound to German laws because they are doing business in Germany. Sure it will not apply to American DO customers, but if they to have German customers, they are bound by their local laws and those laws apply to protect citizens of that nation.

>If they have German customers, they are bound to German laws because they are doing business in Germany. that is simply not true... Now for DO it might be because they have EU possibly even German Data centers but simply because a Citizen of Germany visits a web site and signs up for a online service does not automatically make german laws apply to that business. Now it possible you could sue in Germany, the America…

> DO it might be because they have EU possibly even German Data centers but simply because a Citizen of Germany visits a web site and signs up for a online service does not automatically make german laws apply to that business.

Are you saying this because you are extrapolating from American law regarding whether a company has a 'nexus' within a given state, or perhaps thinking about taxation?

In those specific cases, what you are saying is true, but in general national-level governments do not care that foreign companies are not actually headquartered within their borders. They demand (arrogantly one might say) that all companies doing business with their citizens follow X,Y,Z rules or else they'll try to sanction the company.

Granted if a company is truly foreign then any sanction would be pretty limited in scope.

However, easy sanction is to stop credit card processors and banking agencies from dealing with a foreign company thus stopping your citizens from easily giving them money.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by jonalmeida »

BoppreH wrote: post #59
phillc73 wrote: post #18

> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too. I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion…

Two years ago the GitHub Student Developer Pack gave me $100, which I have been using to maintain a tiny droplet (literally changed my life, thank you). Last month Digital Ocean sent me this message: We’re truly sorry if this came as a surprise. As of March 2015, we revised our Terms of Service announcing that we’re no longer able to offer credits that do not expire, and any unused credit added to your account more t…

I received this email as well and a friend recommended I donate the server uptime to boinc[1] which can make better use of it than trying to find something to use it on.

[1]: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by rhizome »

zodiac wrote: post #94
dandelany wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP is a general response to the other commenters below who are existing DO customers complaining that they can't take advantage of this promo.

Now that spdustin's post is the top post, that's pretty confusing...

I just got to this thread, but I figured all this out pretty quickly.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by StavrosK »

rohanprabhu wrote: post #13

Kind of off-topic, but the work GitLab is putting in and the things they come up with every other day is crazily impressive. We moved from Github to GitLab sometime ago and we believed that to be a trade-off for moving to our own infrastructure. It always seemed like GitLab wasn't "quite there". Today, however it is a whole different story. We pretty much cannot go back to Github at all because of how well-integrated…

Seriously, we evaluated it, what, two months ago, and it was missing some features. I check now, and it has the missing features and then some. I wonder if we were just evaluating Community edition and it didn't have merge requests or something...

I am super impressed with Gitlab, though. I am moving projects there right now.

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