By and far the main difference between 'Team' ($4/person/month) and 'Enterprise' ($21/person/month) is SSO/LDAP [0]. The SSO tax is real [1]. [0]: https://github.com/pricing [1]: https://sso.tax/
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Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#512Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a business customer of a SaaS product, being able to revoke any employee's access to the SaaS tool if they are terminated. (Imagine how hard this would be for e.g. the SaaS tool your company uses to view financial reporting if it required every user at your company to create their own username/password. If you wanted to prevent someone from "going rogue" during termination, you would need to have an admin remove t…
I agree, but I think the GP was asking about use cases for a solo dev.
Good clarification! If you're a solo dev who wants to sell your side project to any company >500 people, SAML integration is tablestakes. If you're a solo dev who needs to secure your hobby project on the public internet, it's like bringing a Space Shuttle engine to a knife fight.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#513Thank in large part to GitLab for pushing the market forward on affordable collaborative development. We moved across when GH did their pricing changed. Free CI/CD well before "actions". Never looked back.
Bitbucket offered free repos before Gitlab, but Gitlab did an amazing job making it affordable and as good as githubs offerings. It's always pleasantly surprisingly to go to Gitlab and see how much they continue to improve.
Bitbucket was certainly more generous than GitHub at the time. I used them too. Their problem was the pricing structure. The break between "free" and "all your money, please" felt pretty harsh. They always appeared to be pushing very industrial companion tooling (eg Jira) which might have suited enterprise customers but wasn't very helpful to a freelancer. That's pretty common in SaaS. Enterprise is easier than volume.
By contrast GitLab's tiers are... Cheap. And it's perfectly feasible to do professional, modern CI flows on their free tier.
It'll be interesting to see what happens next.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#514That's awesome, I feel like many companies increase prices over time trying to squeeze more revenue, but that usually requires monopoly power.
I remember from economics that in an idealized, efficient, large market, the price of a product should tend towards the marginal cost of production. In the case of SaaS, that's almost $0 (server costs being fairly low), so SaaS products ideally should all get cheaper over time. Good to see theory matching real-world here.
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#515I just realized I've been paying for Github pro for like a year for absolutely no reason at all.
Ask for a refund of all the charges, people don't realize that a lot of companies do that these days. You should be upset if they refuse (assuming you genuinely weren't using their premium features).
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#516First you win the developers. Then you get the apps. Then you win the consumers. How long to the next Microsoft Phone? Wouldn’t want to be Google.
All the places Microsoft has shipped awesome products and won the market didn't have as strong monopoly (or duopoly) effects as in the mobile space. I don't think we'll see a MS phone any time soon unfortunately.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#517Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stuff like SAML is kind of the only leverage freemium SaaS has for rationalizing charging enterprise customers.
Not true. There are other things (like audit logs, invoice/PO payments, better support) that enterprises will still want.
Yes, I'm pretty happy with the new pricing but my employer will probably have to go with the Enterprise plan to get access to the "Audit Log" and HIPAA compliance. :frown:
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#518I'm confused about the "Collaborators for private repositories" feature. The Free plan shows an "unlimited" number of collaborators but each of the paid plans show "Up to org size". What does "Up to org size" mean? Which organization are you talking about? Does this mean that the free plans have more functionality?
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#519what is the font for the text in the upper left that says "The GitHub Blog"? Looks cool.
Looks like it's one of these: .alt-mono-font { font-family: SFMono-Regular,Consolas,Liberation Mono,Menlo,Courier,monospace; } If you find yourself wondering this a lot, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whatfont/jabopobgc... is a fun extnesion.
If anyone from GitHub's around in this thread, would you mind putting "ui-monospace" at the front of that list? SFMono-Regular no longer works in Safari because of fingerprinting concerns.
Re: GitHub is now free for teams
#520437 comments, 6 from Nat Friedman. That seems a little weird for an AMA discussion.
I don't think this was really supposed to be an AMA.