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Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by vultour »

pid-1 wrote: post #18
mooreds wrote: post #5

I 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 pointe…

GitHub has stronger 'social' features and it's better for people who want to connect to other devs or build portfolios. GitLab is years ahead of GitHub for certain stuff (e.g. CI/CD) and IMO it has a better commercial offering for business. I use GitHub as my portfolio profile for free and GitLab in my $JOB. That's my opinion tho, I'm just a person who uses both.

GitHub's CI pipelines are behind GitLab? My lord, here I was thinking about moving to GitHub Enterprise when our subscription expires because everything in GitLab feels like an unfinished weekend project. Seems like nobody can get anywhere near the functionality of Jenkins.

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by iechoz6H »

halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #27
41209 wrote: post #25

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In the same way the Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X aren't competitors. Many hard core gamers will have both. My Switch is for Smash Bros and the Advance Wars reboot. Advance Wars was one of my favorite games as a kid, and I'll pay 300$ for a machine just to play it. The Series X also plays games, but it's a completely different experience. No one expects Switch quirkiness on an Xbox, and no one expects 4K gaming o…

Actions are close If not better than Gitlab’s CI. I moved from Gitlab to GitHub Actions because they offer OSX runners too, game changer.

gitlab-runners are also installable on OSX (MacOS)[1]

1. https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/osx.html

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by vultour »

wyldfire wrote: post #3

I 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…

GitLab has already turned into "The Homer". It has hundreds (thousands?) of features, but if you stray away from the core git functionality you'll very quickly realise they're pretty bad.

I've always seen GitLab as a useful tool for smaller companies where you can use it to replace several other applications (e.g. JIRA, Jenkins, or wiki), but if your company already has those established it all becomes somewhat useless.

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by bytematic »

teh_klev wrote: post #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"?

Acronyms/Initialisms are great right?

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by pjot »

nerdponx wrote: post #19
the-dude wrote: post #4

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I think it is fair to say Gitlab is already eating Github's lunch. For some time.

Are they? What's the Gitlab market share? Also, it sounds to me like Github is leaving the old lunch of "Git hosting + issue tracking" on the table, and moving on to being a kind of web-based all-in-one full-service collaboration/dev platform with a social network built in. So even if Gitlab picks up some single-digit-percentage market share, that's not what Github cares about anyway.

Especially considering the coupling of GitHub with vscode

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by Gepsens »

dhritzkiv wrote: post #24
debacle wrote: post #8

A 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 changes…

Yes! Gitlab's offerings are great, and our team doesn't even scratch the surface of what's possible with its feature set. That said, MRs with over 1000 lines of changes are painful sometimes impossible to review. Even small MRs feel clunky, due to how many panels there are (yes, I know they're collapsible). Because MRs are one of our most used features, it sometimes makes me consider switching to GitHub for their muc…

I prefer to use Intellij now for reviews. How can people review any kind of code in that PR web UI ? I mean I used to do it but not anymore

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by la_fayette »

pjot wrote: post #29
pid-1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub has stronger 'social' features and it's better for people who want to connect to other devs or build portfolios. GitLab is years ahead of GitHub for certain stuff (e.g. CI/CD) and IMO it has a better commercial offering for business. I use GitHub as my portfolio profile for free and GitLab in my $JOB. That's my opinion tho, I'm just a person who uses both.

In an interview I had with GL the interviewer mentioned “people use GH for open source work, and GL for closed”.

Thats somehow funny, as GH is closed source and GL is open source...

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by czbond »

alangibson wrote: post #30

Have any of the finance minded HN commenters decided if the $10B valuation is justified? I'm usually pretty negative about high valuations, but given their enterprise penetration, this one seems almost reasonable.

Came to look for the same. I haven't found current or future projections on revenue to hang something on.

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by 10000truths »

la_fayette wrote: post #37
pjot wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In an interview I had with GL the interviewer mentioned “people use GH for open source work, and GL for closed”.

Thats somehow funny, as GH is closed source and GL is open source...

Makes perfect sense to me. Because GL is open source, it can be easily self hosted, which is great for data residency compliance, or specialized security needs.

Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO

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Post by mooreds »

vultour wrote: post #31
pid-1 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GitHub has stronger 'social' features and it's better for people who want to connect to other devs or build portfolios. GitLab is years ahead of GitHub for certain stuff (e.g. CI/CD) and IMO it has a better commercial offering for business. I use GitHub as my portfolio profile for free and GitLab in my $JOB. That's my opinion tho, I'm just a person who uses both.

GitHub's CI pipelines are behind GitLab? My lord, here I was thinking about moving to GitHub Enterprise when our subscription expires because everything in GitLab feels like an unfinished weekend project. Seems like nobody can get anywhere near the functionality of Jenkins.

> Seems like nobody can get anywhere near the functionality of Jenkins.

I've heard Jenkins is a nightmare to administer (not sure about the new versions). Seems like an opportunity: the power of Jenkins with modern sensibility.

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