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Every software system used at Gitlab

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Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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Funny how they don't seem to really have any non-specialised tools to coordinate, manage and track work in a structured way across the company (like smaller team tools like Trello, or larger ones like Asana). The only cross company collaboration tool I saw on that diagram was Slack!

Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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Funny how they don't seem to really have any non-specialised tools to coordinate, manage and track work in a structured way across the company (like smaller team tools like Trello, or larger ones like Asana). The only cross company collaboration tool I saw on that diagram was Slack!

Makes sense considering Gitlab _is_a cross-company collaboration tool; they eat their own dogfood. They have a whole set of features that compete directly with Trello/Asana

Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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Funny how they don't seem to really have any non-specialised tools to coordinate, manage and track work in a structured way across the company (like smaller team tools like Trello, or larger ones like Asana). The only cross company collaboration tool I saw on that diagram was Slack!

They use Gitlab for that e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/16653

It has kanban, issues, epics, portfolios etc and they use comments for capturing knowledge e.g. similar to Confluence.

You can watch how they use it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpvaqtJjXd0

Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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For a company that makes and promotes FOSS, their tech stack sure is dominated by proprietary SASS vendor lock in solutions.

As someone who has a B2B startup there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops. And anything that does exist is really low quality.

And it's because (a) most developers aren't exposed to non-Engineering parts of the company so they have no understanding of what problem to solve and (b) it is incredibly lucrative to build a proprietary SaaS solution.

Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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Very nice! Thank you for sharing, I wonder though, no fancy big-screen dashboard service in there? Do people not value that kind of thing?

They are a remote distributed team. I don't think their employees would value having to arrange their workspaces to accommodate a big screen set up high and at a distance from their workstation.

Re: Every software system used at Gitlab

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For a company that makes and promotes FOSS, their tech stack sure is dominated by proprietary SASS vendor lock in solutions.

As someone who has a B2B startup there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops. And anything that does exist is really low quality. And it's because (a) most developers aren't exposed to non-Engineering parts of the company so they have no understanding of what problem to solve and (b) it is incredibly lucrative to build a proprietary SaaS solution.

> there is almost nothing in the open source space for Marketing/Sales Ops

There is https://erpnext.com/ which is completely FOSS built on Frappe framework. If anything, it is rather higher quality than most SASS solutions out there.

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