Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

Post by 52-6F-62 » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:22 PM UTC

aeonflux wrote: post #45

pm90 wrote: post #37

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored. Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many thin…

I can totally relate to that. In flood of notifications I missed information about expiring CC. Instead of somehow soft-locking the account they just downgraded it and all my integrations, hooks and god knows what just blowed. I managed to fix the CC in 5 minutes, but many months after I am still recovering from that disaster. Support replied that they did send warning so I should just FO.

Post by dpflan » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:27 PM UTC

s_dev wrote: post #87

dpflan wrote: post #47

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Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? I assume it helps make it seem developer friendly, data-mining, identifying projects/new ideas of value and validation, and is part of their becoming more of a cloud company strategy.

> Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub? Between LinkedIn and GitHub they probably have the best data for identifying great devs/engineers as well as encouraging future devs to use their products. Soft power.

Post by lone_haxx0r » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:33 PM UTC

tikkabhuna wrote: post #112

lucideer wrote: post #105

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Search friendliness. Quite a few open-source projects rely heavily on being findable, and often use their Github README as a sort of "marketing site" for developers. Finding projects organically on Gitlab is a nightmare.

Search in general in Gitlab is painful. Searches seem to require 3 or more characters, but if you put two you just don't see any results. No warning saying add more. Pretty intuitive. The file name search is pretty rapid though.

Post by auiya » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:34 PM UTC

peterwwillis wrote: post #51

sieabahlpark wrote: post #2

I don't see how it's worth that much unless their plan is to strip all features from gitlab community or expect a Google acquisition.

Oh it'll get acquired eventually, the question is when, and at what price, and by whom? How valuable is a Github competitor if nobody's leaving Github to use it? I don't see Google being interested; they know it won't make any money but from corporate users, and corporate users don't take Google Cloud seriously. Someone like Atlassian might be interested if they didn't already have 5 CI/CD solutions.

Post by banachtarski » Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:39 PM UTC

ryanmcbride wrote: post #157

At my last job Gitlab was in the stack and I had never used it before so I was expecting it to be a real pain. It was actually a perfectly pleasant experience. I don't think it'll make me leave Github but I put them at the same level now. Merge Requests never felt right saying over Pull Requests, even though it's more descriptive of what's actually happening.