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Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Post by karthikksv »

evanbarter wrote: post #3

You seem to be heavily focussed on Github's financial costs, but why should I use this over something like Bitbucket, which provides free hosting for small teams and very reasonable pricing for teams?

In a financial standpoint, once you hit over 5 users on BitBucket, you're paying $1/user/month. With Legit Teams, you only pay for space and are not limited on either collaborators or repositories. And for me personally, the 500 MB plan is more space than I'll ever need, as only the size of my compressed .git folders count.

Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Post by evaninja »

evanbarter wrote: post #3

You seem to be heavily focussed on Github's financial costs, but why should I use this over something like Bitbucket, which provides free hosting for small teams and very reasonable pricing for teams?

As the owner of a small non-profit with real turnover, I would much rather use something like this.. just my two cents. We've had issues with holdover accounts costing us even after our developers are no longer actively involved. It makes a lot more sense to charge based on storage space.

Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Post by dropkick »

It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design.

I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later.

The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at some point). That means we could be happy at the $5 month range.

If you get 1000 customers X $5, you're making $5000/month. I make way more than that as an employee.

Of course, you have people that will need more than 2GB but I think it's rare.

tl;dr raise your prices. I think it will help you get more business.

Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Post by karthikksv »

dropkick wrote: post #9

It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design. I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later. The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at so…

We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going.

tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a tool that we use, and will keep using. Having others on board is a bonus! :)

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