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Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by therealmarv »

TAForObvReasons wrote: post #124
teen wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bitbucket is terrible though, so what does it matter?

Can you clarify? Why is Bitbucket "terrible"?

Bitbucket is ok for private repos. I think private repos are relatively secure there because Atlassian has much of reputation to loose if there is a security breach. Another plus for Bitbucket is the integration with Jira and other Atlassians tools. Beside that plus points I will rather go to GitLab.com (more features, better UI and integration with 3rd party) but my trust in private repos is lower there than on Bitbucket. I wished we could measure security somehow for private repos between Bitbucket, GitHub and Gitlab.com

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by Vespasian »

marcosscriven wrote: post #41
Ghostium wrote: post #10

Hmm, I still will use Gitlab instead of Github. Unlimited public and private repos for free is nice.

Does anyone know how Gitlab plan to sustain that?

As others said, Gitlabs business comes mostly from clients who want or have to have their own on premise solution.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by ccannon »

vacri wrote: post #178
nxzero wrote: post #148

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Compared to products like Salesforce, GitHub seems cheap to me. What to you is a fair price and why?

> GitHub seems cheap to me At $9/user/mo, github is 900% more expensive than the $1/user/mo direct competitor BitBucket. BitBucket uses brackets rather than pure scaling, but their most expensive option - 101 users require the $200 unlimited accounts plan - is still only $2/user.

It's actually 2500% more expensive for the first 5 users. Github will never learn.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by therealmarv »

kapv89 wrote: post #196

Nothing beats https://bitbucket.org/ when it comes to free, unlimited, private repositories. It has seen the first hosted repositories of far more startups than github ever will. Which is special achievement in itself.

You should check out gitlab.com

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by frostymarvelous »

hunvreus wrote: post #130

1. Take a gazillion dollars in funding on an over-hyped valuation, 2. Go through significant organizational changes that end up with the departure of a co-founder (and more suits in the building). 3. Notice that a significant segment of your growth (VC-funded startups) are running out of money. 4. Switch to a user-based pricing to generate more revenue for investors, but spin it as a freebie "Hey! Look at the cool un…

Per repo pricing was why we didn't go with github.

Atlassian was our only option till we shopped around till we found Visual Studio Team Services.

For a team of 4. Simply great. No need to pay for Jira or anything at this point.

Now, I won't go back to github even if it was completely free. The value Atlassian gives makes it a much better and attractive offering if you don't like Microsoft.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by caseymarquis »

The number of very small teams or individuals this encourages to start using github probably allows every organization who can't afford this to leave and github to still increase the money they're making. It seems like a good move based on my imagined profile of their user base. 1 million teens and young 20-somethings just decided they'll give 7$ a month to github.

For bigger organizations, this is practically no money compared to other software they're using. So they'll just take the hit.

Sounds like the only customers being lost were those using github for no-commit users. Is that really a huge segment? If so they just need a special account status to fix this.

I think the question is why this took so long.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by therealmarv »

It seems most users here don't have gitlab.com in their radar and only mentioning Bitbucket as competitor. I've recently switched all my private personal repos to gitlab.com which also allows unlimited private repositories because gitlab.com seems to have better UI and more features than Bitbucket (when not buying any additional Atlassian Jira etc. products).

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by beberlei »

dommer wrote: post #170
hunvreus wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As stated at the end of my comment, a fair price is what they decide to charge. I simply don't like people to try and spin a price increase into a freebie.

Isn't that one of the points of marketing: Highlight issues as a positives to decrease their impact to sales? ps. No pricing model will suit every org. The current model based on repo numbers has horrid steps which make no sense. eg. 125to300 private repos = $200to$450 cost. So if you need 126 repos you pay more than twice as much for that extra 1 repo. That makes little sense to me.

yes, but you are comparing apples to oranges. If you had to jump from 125 to 300 users in ONE step as per the current pricing model instead of paying only for the marginal next user.

Recognizing the repository steps are a pain for customers and not moving towards a pricing per _single_ repository, say between 1$ or 2$ per private repository - is just plain misleading. They could have still thrown in the personal plan with a large number of private repositories and fewer collaborators.

Re: Introducing unlimited private repositories

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Post by therealmarv »

bad_user wrote: post #129
taspeotis wrote: post #86

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I keep my eye on Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Services. It has a bit of a clunky name and aimed more at enterprises but I think at some point they will position it as a competitor to GitHub. It's free for the first five developers, and no charge for "stakeholder" user accounts. https://www.visualstudio.com/pricing/visual-studio-team-serv... So 29 users would be $182/m (check my maths) and you'd pay nothing for the…

If you no longer want/need the social aspects of GitHub, you can just move to GitLab. Much more affordable and you can self host it yourself. We have an on premise GitLab installation. Besides the rare upgrade, it's pretty hands off. And it's costing us $0 in licensing fees for over 60 users ;-)

alternative, written in go and using way less moving components and resources is https://gogs.io It's lighter but also lighter in features than Gitlab.
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