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Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by mlitwiniuk »

zimbatm wrote: post #19

And if you want to host it yourself, these look like promising competitors: http://gitlabhq.com/

Gitlab team is making great software - basicaly they've copied what's best in Github and released it to the world allowing you to set up your own git hosting service (accessible only by your team). In my opinion it's great piece of software as long, as you don't want to share your code with anyone out there (beside your teammates). Ergo - it's better imo for students, as long, as they have machine that will be able to host it (VPS basically).

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by oz »

So why should we be paying approximately $1/repository when we don’t need all the open-source-focused features? And why does it make sense to pay per repository when the real cost is in space and IO? Our whole set of repositories probably aren’t more than 500 MB. And 500 MB, at current prices, costs merely a few cents. IO, in like manner, is negligible; we only push our repositories to the server once in a while. So why $10 or $20 a month?

If you EVER take one thing away from HN, 'tis this: NEVER compete on price. It is a race to the bottom. There will always be someone willing to provide the service for less than you. Just don't do it.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by mdip »

unnu wrote: post #16

You should always ask yourself, why the code you are going to write should not be open source? It's only true for paid projects and may startup prototypes. Paid projects should be not problem because they are paid. That leaves the startup ideas.

I'll take a stab at this since I signed up for bitbucket after reading the comments:

I have a lot of code. A LOT. It's mostly random things around data to make tracking things in my life easier (diet being the most recent one). And most of the code is crap in two ways: (1) I'd never want to be associated with it in a public sense and (2) It's so specialized to my life that it's unlikely that anyone would use it or contribute to it. Sure, there might be a few hundred people in the world that could find it useful, but those few hundred are unlikely to happen upon my kludged-up solution, and if they are, I'd feel badly when it doesn't work for them the way it works for me due to my personal configuration being hard coded throughout.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by ayushsood »

encoderer wrote: post #12

1. As others have said: BitBucket.com. Every time these guys are on here promoting this service they act like they've never heard of it. But they're in this space? Doesn't make sense. 2. I don't know how good I feel trusting my source code to a sorta-startup run by a small group of fulltime students. I don't think you should quit school to run this startup, but I do think this is an awfully serious service to try to…

1) We are aware of BitBucket; it's a great service, but it limits us on the number of collaborators we can have, thereby stifling productive group work. As college students, we're always collaborating, be it for assignments or our own side-projects, and BitBucket doesn't make sense for this.

2) Yes, we are college students, and I'm sorry you feel that college students can't be trusted, but I urge you to reconsider this opinion. Its not fair to apply such a generalization to all students.

3) We chose to address the primary service that we ourselves used for private repositories before Legit Teams. We understand that there are a myriad of services available for git hosting, but we are unable to address them all in one post; we limited the scope of the article so we could get our point across succinctly.

4) I think there is a slight misunderstanding here. When we described setting up git hosting, we meant on our own servers and not using a third party hosting platform. These paragraphs were simply laying the groundwork for why we created Legit Teams—they were the context.

5) We are aware of this; they offer a free micro-plan to students and educational institutions. This, however, still limits us to five private repositories. The whole point of Legit Teams is to get rid of limits on repositories and collaboration, which we feel are large pain points when developing with others.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by ayushsood »

jessedhillon wrote: post #40

I would imagine that these guys are very sad and depressed right now, given all the harsh -- and correct -- feedback that they've gotten here. I'll try to add something different: The various competitors in this space compete apparently on public/private visibility, price, storage quotas, and user+repo counts. If you compete on these dimensions you will have a very difficult time differentiating yourself -- there sim…

We are not sad; we realize this service is not meant for everyone and we understand that we'll receive criticism. In doing so, we hope to better Legit Teams.

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. It solves an issue we were experiencing and, at the least, we'll use our own service proudly.

Your points about competing on other dimensions do make sense, but as you seem to imply yourself, it is hard to find exactly what those other dimensions are. We're searching for this ourselves, but based on feedback we've received from our friends, this is at least a preliminary service that they'd like to use. We plan to iterate from here.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by encoderer »

ayushsood wrote: post #44
encoderer wrote: post #12

1. As others have said: BitBucket.com. Every time these guys are on here promoting this service they act like they've never heard of it. But they're in this space? Doesn't make sense. 2. I don't know how good I feel trusting my source code to a sorta-startup run by a small group of fulltime students. I don't think you should quit school to run this startup, but I do think this is an awfully serious service to try to…

1) We are aware of BitBucket; it's a great service, but it limits us on the number of collaborators we can have, thereby stifling productive group work. As college students, we're always collaborating, be it for assignments or our own side-projects, and BitBucket doesn't make sense for this. 2) Yes, we are college students, and I'm sorry you feel that college students can't be trusted, but I urge you to reconsider th…

It's not that I feel (or said) that "college students can't be trusted." But I don't want to have to worry about changing my project hosting if you guys decide to call it quits. I add webhooks, hard-code remote URLs into automation scripts, etc. I think you have a barrier of seriousness and longevity to overcome before I'd "invest" my time on your platform. And yes, I think it's a little higher because you're still students.

You could probably overcome that by going the balsamiq route and showing a consistently growing, profitable business. It's not an accident that it's normal to announce funding rounds in a press release: being able to associate yourselves with either massive profits or trusted brand name investors gives you credibility that being a couple guys with a good looking landing page doesn't.

I hope you take this all in a constructive way and know that I, and most other people in our industry, applaud you for shipping.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by cmclaughlin »

ayushsood wrote: post #44
encoderer wrote: post #12

1. As others have said: BitBucket.com. Every time these guys are on here promoting this service they act like they've never heard of it. But they're in this space? Doesn't make sense. 2. I don't know how good I feel trusting my source code to a sorta-startup run by a small group of fulltime students. I don't think you should quit school to run this startup, but I do think this is an awfully serious service to try to…

1) We are aware of BitBucket; it's a great service, but it limits us on the number of collaborators we can have, thereby stifling productive group work. As college students, we're always collaborating, be it for assignments or our own side-projects, and BitBucket doesn't make sense for this. 2) Yes, we are college students, and I'm sorry you feel that college students can't be trusted, but I urge you to reconsider th…

> 1) We are aware of BitBucket; it's a great service, but it limits us on the

> number of collaborators we can have, thereby stifling productive group work.

> As college students, we're always collaborating, be it for assignments or our

> own side-projects, and BitBucket doesn't make sense for this.

Bitbucket provides free, unlimited hosting for students. There's no limit on the number of collaborators. All you have to do is validate your university email address and you'll go from 5 users for free to the unlimited educational plan.

Re: Why the World Needs Another Git Repository Hosting Service

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Post by OnesAndZeros »

Congrats I say! But, there is no difference between 3 and 6 dollars per month. Simply just put it at 5 for 2000MB knowing that not everyone will use all 2000. Keep things simple. You also need to tell me a bit more about your data recovery plans etc and possibly where its hosted, AWS might add some weight.
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