Competing on price is just fine. Please don't complicate things. I don't want anything else. Just a private repo will do. Thank you.
Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams
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#22Just created a test account. Pretty slick for a side project. Love the TODO list feature. Like others have mentioned i too worry about the pricing though. I have several people pushing each day and pulls from multiple servers as i deploy straight from the git repo. Slow pushes are the worst and at this price range i dont see you guys making that work once people really start using your product.
I think it actually looks better than bitbucket which some have mentioned which to me looks really cluttered.
I am not a student though so maybe i should not be looking at this as an option for a business anyway, but still...
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#23It'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 to…
Good luck with Legit Teams - one thing I'd highly suggest is introducing annual prices, at least as an option.
There's no way I'm going through the hassle of expensing $5 a month, but $60 for a years service isn't going to raise any queries with finance.
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#24Competing on price - this is very low margin, even with negligible storage and bandwidth costs - when GitHub is already in the "dollar per repo" range seems like a good idea until you realize that your target market (poor students) might not want to give you anything. I strongly recommend that you read the first of the Copy Hacks books: the one on messaging. Key is the insights on identifying the motivations of your…
Do you have a link for "the Copy Hacks books"? Haven't read about them.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?
Push to GitHub since every Git repo retains full history by default.
I think the question was directed at the founders, not the users. What happens to the users of the service when the founders no longer have any use for it?
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#26Codeplane is also a nice alternative. They offer 2gb for just U$9/month.
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#27Immediately, the opening paragraph states that this service would be useful to "college students." However, Bitbucket offers their full unlimited package to college students with a .edu account, and this account lasts for a lifetime, even after graduation. Perhaps you could offer this deal to college students as well.
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#28This is great. As a freelancer, I often reluctant to delete past client's repo. With this, I can keep all past projects' repo without blowing my wallet.
Edit: It would be great if they add support for DSA too.
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#29Just curious - how are you planning to address the problem of ssh key lookup at scale ? Github hacked its own PAM module to read from MySQL, if I'm not wrong.
As far as I can tell, GitHub uses one git user to grant repository access to everyone. This introduces SSH key lookup problems because all GitHub members need to be authorized under this one user.
Legit Teams, by contrast, allocates an individual user per member who signs up. Thus, SSH key lookups are limited to only the keys that one person has. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this circumvents the scaling issue entirely.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 to…
There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll have to handle support too. Not sure if we're typical or how much load 30,000 users would generate. Personally, I pull/push at least once a day. Just something for you to keep in mind.
I see your point. There's little I can say about handling 30,000 daily users along with support, though; what this really entails will only be determined by time if we get to that stage.
Thank you for your thoughts.