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Re: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

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Post by santiagobasulto »

#off-topic

These are signs of high growth markets, and how counter-intuitive the exponential growth of the internet has been.

At the beginning we had Github. And that was enough. Then we had Gitlab, and most of us wondered: "who are these crazy dudes that want to compete with Github?". They were absolutely right, and the market grew so big that they found their own space.

Now, more alternatives keep appearing (like OP's).

It happened the same with Slack or Zoom. When Slack/Zoom came out I thought: who would want to compete with (Skype,hipchat)/(Google Meet, etc). But the markets grew a lot and there was room for everybody.

I guess I'm not very smart about business :')

Best of luck OP!

Re: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

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Post by capableweb »

distrill wrote: post #6

isn't gitlab already the github alternative?

GitHub arguably have been turning around a bit and are starting to become more like GitLab. Initially, GitHub just cared about hosting code and enabling social features, while GitLab early focused on becoming "everything" for building services. Lately, GitHub are trying to become GitLab though.

Re: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

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Post by kahnclusions »

bazhova wrote: post #5

What is dogfooding

When you eat your own dogfood (or rather, feed it to your own dogs), to demonstrate confidence in your product. You can experience things as your users do, which can help give you a better understanding of how people use your product and the issues they may find.

Re: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

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Post by robinshen »

robertluo7 wrote: post #3

As a long-time user, I want to show my big thanks to OneDev and its author, for its features, performance, resource efficiency, and most importantly, Robin (the author)'s quick response to all questions and issues. This tool should have its position in DevOps market.

Thank you for seconding OneDev!

Re: OneDev – A Lightweight Gitlab Alternative

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Post by varispeed »

santiagobasulto wrote: post #15

#off-topic These are signs of high growth markets, and how counter-intuitive the exponential growth of the internet has been. At the beginning we had Github. And that was enough. Then we had Gitlab, and most of us wondered: "who are these crazy dudes that want to compete with Github?". They were absolutely right, and the market grew so big that they found their own space. Now, more alternatives keep appearing (like O…

Any business that grows eventually gets taken over by shareholders and their goals of maximising profits so they can get their dividends or other benefits. They think their product has become invincible and nothing could sink it. Then when they think it actually might sink they double down on extracting profits. This strategy is always against the users of the product, so eventually they get tired of it a seek for an alternative. Then they find an alternative, it grows... and cycle repeats...
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