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

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

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Post by themacguffinman »

irq11 wrote: post #305
joshlambert wrote: post #303

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The breakdown is probably close to the percentage of paying versus open source customers that we have. We are working to better educate our users on the value that our paid version can offer, but it is very important for us to be good stewards of the open source community that has grown around the project. You can read more about our pricing strategy and stewardship here: https://about.gitlab.com/company/stewardship/…

please stop astroturfing.

He's not astroturfing, astroturfing requires deception.

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Post by xz0r »

toong wrote: post #97
umvi wrote: post #63

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> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

Jenkinsfile + BitBucket works just nicely here. Getting that to work with GitHub is more painful (pain mostly related to automated webhook-management) I can't compare to GitLab right now ;-)

I second that. At work we use Jenkins and BitBucket with no issues at all.

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Post by snuxoll »

alipang wrote: post #228
umvi wrote: post #63

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> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

My company is currently considering switching away from GitLab CI/CD as well as we've found no way to increase the number of available minutes (2000 on our tier I believe, doesn't last very long) without upgrading many tiers before we can even scale it at all. Can I ask what plan you're on? I'm assuming since your company wants to pinch pennies you're also fairly small?

As sibling comments have said you can buy more minutes, but you can also setup your own runners and build to your hearts content on them.

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Post by emilycook »

utbabya wrote: post #316
chinhodado wrote: post #311

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It's not that bad. If you only use GitLab for the git repo management purpose and already had other tools for CI (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI) and project management (e.g. JIRA) then GitLab CE works perfectly fine. The only thing that I wish would be in the CE version is the ability to approve merge requests.

6 years ago I was trying to setup GitLab CI. From memory, it was a bad experience since there were missing or incorrect pieces of crucial information. At the end they were figured out but if the status quo is still the same I believe it would not be easy to automate a rebuild.

Hello, GitLab employee. I definitely hope we've matured a lot since 6 years ago! In early 2015 there were still only 9 employees [1] compared to almost 900 now.

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/company/history/

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Post by elgenie »

petercooper wrote: post #82

Does anyone know why GitLab hasn't taken off so much amongst open source projects? I have no horse in the race (indeed, I'd love for there to be more variety in this space) but one of my jobs is to link to open source repos and I've just checked.. and the last one I linked to was in December 2018. In the niches I cover, almost no-one seems to actually using GitLab for their open source repos. Lest you think it's just…

To overcome an entrenched competitor with network effects, the upstart has to be significantly and obviously better for a new project to adopt. To maintain market and mindshare, GitHub doesn't have to become/stay better than GitLab; they just have to be good enough, or at least appear to be.

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Post by keithnz »

umvi wrote: post #63
ko3us wrote: post #44

We’ve been using Gitlab for 4 years now. What got us initially was the free private repos before github had that. We are now a paying customer. Their integrated CICD is amazing. It works perfectly for all our needs and integrates really easily with AWS and GCP. Also their customer service is really damn good. If I ever have an issue, it’s dealt with so fast and with so much detail. Honestly one of the best customer s…

> Their integrated CICD is amazing. My company switched to BitBucket in order to pinch pennies, and now I weep when I have to get Jenkins and BitBucket to play nice with each other or to do something. GitLab CI just works , is easily horizontally scalable without paying exorbitant prices for more "agents", etc... I miss GitLab...

having used gitlab, bitbucket and github.... I gotta say, it really doesn't matter if you don't tie your CI/CD in with any of them.

For CI/CD I quite like Appveyor and Octopus Deploy. But if you are penny pinching, they may not be super appealing, but they are incredibly powerful!

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Post by Aeolun »

skj wrote: post #296
Aeolun wrote: post #268

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> I will say that it is sometimes hard to separate the signal from the noise, given my team currently has 3k+ open issues. I think this is a different problem. But not something your customers should have to care about.

Even in business, empathy goes a long way.

I can understand why your work is difficult, but still want you to deliver me great service. Bad service is bad service, regardless of the reasons.

Can you imagine sitting in a call queue and hearing, “We are sorry, but you will have to wait while we help the 2300 people in front of you.” Any sane person would think that maybe they wouldn’t have this issue if they’d hired more agents.

That obviously doesn’t map 1 to 1 on dev, but it’s the scenario thst immediately popped in my head when reading the original message.

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Post by hobofan »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #279
alvern wrote: post #62

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Forgive my ignorance, but how is TravisCI on lifesupport? Is this because Idera aquired them?

They were purchased by a private equity company. Which does not usually mean any continued development. At it's best, it means keep the thing running well and continue to wring revenue out of it. But few and far between are the private equity purchases that are at their best. It also almost always means significant cost cutting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18978251

It's not just any private equity company, but one that is known for purchasing companies with a big subscriber base and then getting as much money out of them with the least effort.

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Post by prepend »

emilycook wrote: post #236
prepend wrote: post #173

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Still sounds like chatbot :) I appreciate you’re trying to be helpful but don’t really have any useful info.

Hi! I'm on Djorde's team, just in case anyone stumbles across this and thinks you're literally talking to a bot (not saying you are OP, just preventative), he is a non-native English speaker but definitely a real person. You're talking to this guy :) https://about.gitlab.com/company/team/#sumenkovic

I was hoping for a bot actually. I’m a decent user of GitLab (and GH) and really find the insight from employees commenting on HN helpful in understanding the product roadmap and philosophy of the company.

I was pleasantly amused at the possibility of GL having a chatbot loose on HN but figured you were just a person trying to be helpful.

Comically, your response still could be generated, but I trust you enough that you don’t have to post additional proof you are human. Spend that resource on accurately counting the pets in the office.

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