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The GitHub Developer Program

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Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#11

Post by seiji »

akerl_ wrote: post #4

Is anybody aware why they're limiting this to paid plans? I'd be on one if there was a benefit besides private repos, which have no use to me.

In a company, many conversations start this way: "Hey, we need more paid accounts. How can we further incentivize people to sign up?"

Maybe having a paid account has more utility to you with this added feature? Maybe you should sign up and try it out hint hint nudge nudge?

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#12

Post by timdorr »

rohamg wrote: post #2

Nice! Finally. We've been itching for this since building ZenHub.io, our project management extension built on top of GitHub ( http://zenhub.io )

This is super cool! We've been using Trello for project management, but I'm already liking this more.

Edit: FYI, it doesn't react well if you use it on a repo with issues disabled.

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#13

Post by [deleted] »

seiji wrote: post #11
akerl_ wrote: post #4

Is anybody aware why they're limiting this to paid plans? I'd be on one if there was a benefit besides private repos, which have no use to me.

In a company, many conversations start this way: "Hey, we need more paid accounts. How can we further incentivize people to sign up?" Maybe having a paid account has more utility to you with this added feature? Maybe you should sign up and try it out hint hint nudge nudge?

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Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#14

Post by Touche »

jasonlotito wrote: post #5

Can someone provide some more information? The page is basically just redirects to existing resources, and has you signup for a program. What's new here? What are they offering?

Cynically I wonder if they are going to start making it more difficult to use the GitHub API if you aren't part of the program.

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#15

Post by nonchalance »

Touche wrote: post #14
jasonlotito wrote: post #5

Can someone provide some more information? The page is basically just redirects to existing resources, and has you signup for a program. What's new here? What are they offering?

Cynically I wonder if they are going to start making it more difficult to use the GitHub API if you aren't part of the program.

Not sure why you were downvoted. A perfectly reasonable growth strategy would be to limit API requests for applications based on a free plan (and progressively increase the limit based on the plan chosen)

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#16

Post by rohamg »

timdorr wrote: post #12
rohamg wrote: post #2

Nice! Finally. We've been itching for this since building ZenHub.io, our project management extension built on top of GitHub ( http://zenhub.io )

This is super cool! We've been using Trello for project management, but I'm already liking this more. Edit: FYI, it doesn't react well if you use it on a repo with issues disabled.

Great feedback, thank you. We'll take a look.

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#17

Post by tclem »

Touche wrote: post #14
jasonlotito wrote: post #5

Can someone provide some more information? The page is basically just redirects to existing resources, and has you signup for a program. What's new here? What are they offering?

Cynically I wonder if they are going to start making it more difficult to use the GitHub API if you aren't part of the program.

We currently have no plans to make it harder to use the API if you aren't part of the program. If you are a business that relies on our API, we want to have a better relationship with you because there is a good chance we share a customer base.

Re: The GitHub Developer Program

#18

Post by rohamg »

ansimionescu wrote: post #8
rohamg wrote: post #2

Nice! Finally. We've been itching for this since building ZenHub.io, our project management extension built on top of GitHub ( http://zenhub.io )

Nice idea and product, but a bit confusing for new users. I felt like I could easily understand the overall idea of your software, but not really what it's supposed to accomplish and how.

Thank you! Great feedback! TBH we've been in "private beta", we have a v2 of the site in development which provides a lot more context / detail and is much more optimized for conversion.
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