Gitlab from YC to IPO
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Gitlab from YC to IPO
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#2I worked with Sytse (as Sid used to be called) back in 2011/2012 in The Hague when he consulted at Digidentity, with Marin. Great guy back then, used to run around in a lab coat, the GitLAB guy. Wonderful to see what Gitlab has become, well done!
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#3I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been languishing for years. Of course, Gitlab has had it for a while.
If Github's not careful, Gitlab will eat their lunch.
Gitlab should be careful not to make their product into "The Homer" [1], though.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#4I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been langu…
I think it is fair to say Gitlab is already eating Github's lunch. For some time.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#5I haven't used gitlab much, but I was shocked to hear GitHub's CTO (at the time of the interview, he has moved on since) state that GitHub didn't consider them a competitor.
"I do think that people still, to this day, think of GitLab as one of our main competitors, and I never have ever saw GitLab as a competitor."
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud...
Anyone have thoughts on that? Or pointers to more reading?
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#6I recently wanted to try adding some diagrams to a markdown-formatted README file in a Github Enterprise repo. I saw a few solutions but they all seemed to require me to roll some kind of service or automation to generate a raster image of the diagram and reference that from the markdown. There's an outstanding feature request for Github to integrate this kind of thing in their markdown rendering. But it's been langu…
I think it is fair to say Gitlab is already eating Github's lunch. For some time.
Is it?
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#7"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well."
Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#8A paid user + big fan of gitlab. They exist in a strange valley between github and Atlassian where usability has remained high while also being featureful.
Their kanban is 10% more functional than Trello, which is all our small team really needs, they give you everything and they don't nickel and dime you.
The only feature I would like to see improved is their PR process. Seems a bit buggy with remotely large changesets, and the digest for the PR should provide a bit more context to reviewees.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#9"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#10"He used to joke that his home office was the biggest GitLab Inc. office in the world because his EA would work there as well." Maybe my brain is in a post-lunchtime stupor, but what or who is an "EA"?
Executive assistant I think in this case, though I’ve seen enterprise architect too!