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I have a company I started with 2 university professors in the geospatial analytics space and as I work on building out the tech I am increasingly anxious about spending since we're pre-revenue and it's all out of my pocket for now. This Microsoft for Startups is appealing to me. Anyone know of any similar programs I should look into?
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So basically up 47 free users for 2 years. Not bad.
Is 47 users really a "startup"? If you have anywhere near 47 actual users, affording $1k a month is going to be trivial. Would be nice if you could have, say, 5 users and extend the 2 years by not using all $1k monthly credits, adding users as you grow.
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If you can't afford to start paying after 2 years, it's time to give up or pivot. This is very generous of MS/GH to offer until you've got traction.
> If you can't afford to start paying after 2 years, it's time to give up or pivot That's kind of extremist, isn't it? Plenty of startups are bootstrapped, one or two people, and can survive just fine using basic tooling. The free offerings from Gitlab and Bitbucket (which include private repos) are just fine for a lot of startups. Not all startups are your VC backed unicorns. > This is very generous of MS/GH to offe…
Having played a lot with gitlab and really happy with it, I'm confused as to why I would look at GitHub. This looks like it is free as in price, but not free forever and not free of red tape.
I do have a huge amount of frustration with GL's open core system where it seems they use a dartboard for deciding what level to make open source, or ultra-enterprise $$$$, and their issue tracker is the definition of chaos, but nothing's perfect, I guess.
A lot of words to say that I agree with you: short of your team/company already being locked into the GH world, I can't imagine going back to GH
I would not use GitHub these days. On GitLab, you can decide to download all your data anytime and put it into a selfhosted GitLab instance. Why would I want to give that up and put my balls into the hands of Microsoft?
Don't worry, soon you'll probably be able to put your balls in the hands of Google. Git is distributed by definition. If you really want to be free, stop using external centralized sc services.
It gives you a credit of $1,000 monthly for 2 years, but there's no real indication anywhere on Github of exactly what that pays for? So it's not really free. How does this compare with Gitlab and Bitbucket offerings for small teams? I know Bitbucket has a one-time payment option for their self-hosted version of $10 for 10 users. Pretty hard to beat that, unless you're adamant you need it hosted for you.
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> If you can't afford to start paying after 2 years, it's time to give up or pivot That's kind of extremist, isn't it? Plenty of startups are bootstrapped, one or two people, and can survive just fine using basic tooling. The free offerings from Gitlab and Bitbucket (which include private repos) are just fine for a lot of startups. Not all startups are your VC backed unicorns. > This is very generous of MS/GH to offe…
> It's really just an attempt to lock you into a proprietary system that you cannot export your data out of nor easily move off of down the road. The GH API covers a lot of what `git` doesn't. GH's strategy has never been lock-in. They provide a good service that's constantly improving. (I'm sure other services have advantages and I'm in no way going to claim that GH is the best in class, but I am continually happy w…
From MS's side, of course it's a lock-in strategy. The whole "MS for Startups" thing is a way to attract small companies to their platform and keep them there until they've grown to a point that switching away is more work than it's worth. Adding GH Enterprise to the offering just makes it more attractive.
Reminder that this exists: https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ and is the preferred implementation of "web frontend to git" by Linus himself ( ahem the creator of git)