They need a lower price point for premium, all I want is enforced reviews of merge request. But $191215 is to much for that feature.
Gitlab from YC to IPO
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Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#92I 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…
As Peter Thiel repeatedly puts in Zero to One:
Monopolists love to talk about have they have competitors and act like they’re in competition.
Competitors love to downplay that they have any competitors at all and try to upsell their business like they’re monopolists.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#93Dmitriy Zaporozhets is explicit mentioned in the blog and on the photo. The S1 doesn't mention him https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573867. Anyone know why Dmitriy owns less than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Class A or Class B common stock?
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#94Dmitriy Zaporozhets is explicit mentioned in the blog and on the photo. The S1 doesn't mention him https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573867 . Anyone know why Dmitriy owns less than 5% of the outstanding shares of the Class A or Class B common stock?
Dilution plus private stock sale or unequal share provisioning among founders? Probably a handful of things, though not sure if it has any bearing on Gitlab's success.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#95I'll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded. I honestly didn't think they stood a chance. I'm happy…
Dont worry, as a corporate user, it's a nightmare: it wont last.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#96Earlier 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.
And jenkins is centuries behind Teamcity.
My company extracted us from github+teamcity paradise to force fit us to gitlab, it's not going well. Try both and for real, build a real project pipeline and see if that works for your dev before moving to either.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#97I'll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded. I honestly didn't think they stood a chance. I'm happy…
Is Gitlab 100% open source?
It is not. They're better than most – and I know that's not a high bar, but they clear it by a wide margin. Nonetheless, their software is better described as "open core".
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#98I'll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded. I honestly didn't think they stood a chance. I'm happy…
Is Gitlab 100% open source?
RedHat is not 100% open source either (although the differences are important).
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#99I'll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded. I honestly didn't think they stood a chance. I'm happy…
I am always reminded how not so great ideas or even clones when executed well lead to good outcomes.
Re: Gitlab from YC to IPO
#100I'll admit that I was wrong about GitLab. I had the chance to invest in them way back in the day, and passed. My thought at the time was that no open source company had ever been super successful except RedHat, which was more of an outlier than a pattern. And my other thought was that they are competing against GitHub, which was extremely popular and well funded. I honestly didn't think they stood a chance. I'm happy…
Is Gitlab 100% open source?
Opensource isnt such a problem the software should be great, i fail to see how Gitlab is better than Github.