meh. this has zero chances of competing with github. I think it's meant more for Google Cloud Platform users to have a place where to store their code within the same "cloud"
Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#22Can't wait to see how long it takes them to get rid of this one like they did with Google Code
Well, it could last ten years, like Google Code did. :P
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#23While I was at Google one insight I had is that there's a copy of most internet products. Given the cadre of college grads they hire to work there, cloning something is almost like a fun little coding challenge.
Dropbox? There's a clone. Pinterest? Clone. Everything. Then they dogfood it and if there's more interest they gather up more resources to inevitably pitch the idea to Marissa Meyer, who then plays with it, design the business case for it, and approve a proper budget for it.
If the product is good then the news leaks or they launch it. After awhile if the Google audience doesn't like it they cut it loose.
Which goes to say... any time some investor asks you what happens if Google comes into your space, you should say: good.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#24Competition in the Git hosting arena seems to be largely nullified by the fact that it's trivial to use multiple remotes.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#25This is clickbait. Nevertheless, my first thought was "GitHub is much better and much much safer than anything Google can offer". Back in the day, were Microsoft to offer a competitor to a small company's product and my reaction would be: "They're dead in the water". Food for thought...
Yes. Google now try to take it all like the old Microsoft. No wonder they get bad response for each new product like that people simply don't trust them anymore.
I pretty much trust Google, Apple, Amazon etc. to safeguard my data better than others.
What do you mean? Don't you use gmail, publish to the app store, and host with AWS? Do you use Stripe for payments? Google Maps? Facebook login? You are trusting these companies with a great deal.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#26The reason people use GitHub is everything around the git hosting: the web interface, the account system, pull requests and issues, forking, comments, wikis, Pages, even the desktop and mobile apps. Hosting git repositories is straightforward, by design.
This article is only slightly more sensible than claiming that S3 is a GitHub competitor because you can git clone over HTTP.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#27Calling a source code repo service a competitor to GitHub is like calling a online book store a competitor to Amazon.
Hint: source code is not GitHub's value, just like books where not Amazon's. GitHubs true value is something Google is profoundly bad at.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#28It looks more like a beginning of an online IDE than a direct github competitor. It's just convenient if you're already using Google's cloud services.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#29> It can serve as a “remote” for Git repositories sitting elsewhere on the Internet or locally.
That's not a feature of this product, it's just how git works.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#30My team has just started looking for a github replacement because the code review workflow is just not working for us, we need something with more structure. I think there's plenty of space for feature and price competition, especially for private repos where github's social network effects don't matter as much.
Have you checked out any of the GitHub plugins that do this, something like https://www.zenhub.io could help you add more structure to GitHub