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Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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arunc wrote: post #22
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, with GitHub's price being 7.5 billion, it's not outrageous as one of their leading competitors. I also was feeling like a Google acquisition wasn't impossible, they did move their entire platform to Google Cloud recently. Microsoft and Google seem on pretty good terms lately, but right now, a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform. I could see a day where Google says t…

> a lot of Google's public projects are posted on a Microsoft code hosting platform Curious to know what that platform is.

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Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by jl-gitlab »

Townley wrote: post #17
cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

I want to say it's the freedom to self-host, but really it's the CI. Throwing a .gitlab-ci.yml file into my repo is by far the easiest way to get CI/CD incorporated into a product. The configuration of test runners (or lack thereof) is both a breeze and extremely powerful. I'm not even talking about the auto-devops thing that I haven't tried; writing your own gitlab-ci file worked in frictionless ways that CircleCI,…

PM for CI/CD here, thanks so much for your feedback! As much as I'm excited about how much you love the product, we can always do better and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Ping me any time (@jlenny) on any issues that are important to you that would make things better.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by jacquesm »

i_cant_speel wrote: post #30
jacquesm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love for Gitlab to stay independent. Of course that is risky and who am I to deny the founders a billion dollar windfall but I feel that such critical resources should not be acquired by the likes of Google, Amazon or Microsoft who already have much more power than they should have.

Unfortunately, the fact that you feel that way is exactly why it's a good decision for Google or Amazon to buy them.

The other side hopefully gets a say in that as well. Either way, I'd have peace with it, that's just my personal preference.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by s_dev »

dpflan wrote: post #6

I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

Because Microsoft paid for GitHub -- since GitLab is well positioned to compete with GitHub, cash rich companies like Apple or Google could be interested purely to keep up the Jones's.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by LennyWhiteJr »

cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

Can self-host behind an enterprise firewall and get all the benefits of open-source software model within the company without exposing proprietary software projects to the whole world.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by pm90 »

Kudos to the team. While my current workspace is tied to GitHub, I will most certainly switch to Gitlab given the option to. Why? Only one reason: GitHub support is fucking horrible. It’s insanely bad, even for paying enterprise customers. Open a support ticket, you will get some superficial pointers to documentation, and then be completely ignored.

Their Product team is the absolute worst too. There are so many things that can make life easier for users (better configurability for CODEOWNERS notification?) and they will flat out ignore you.

Gitlab on the other hand seem much more responsive to users... their actions speak volumes. They recognized the need for integrated CI/CD with code and instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough), they built one years ago.

I really do hope they grow to be the tool of choice for devs. GitHub has lost its way: from being the place that devs loved, to a corporate soul sucking behemoth made of a seemingly insensitive product team.

Gitlab on the other hand, release new features, have better support, give interesting talks etc. Very excited to see where they go and I wish them the very best.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by galacticdessert »

trumbitta2 wrote: post #12
cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

The "Create merge request" (from issue) button. It creates a new branch, with a smart name like 123-my-issue-title, and a new "pull request" for that issue and branch.

Agree. This is indeed a nice tidy workflow. I usually just create a bunch of issues to have a visual representation of what is missing in a project, sort them in a board and then work through them.

Issues are good place for asking input and feedback, and also help in keeping feature branches focused and short lived. Definitely my favorite git workflow.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by james-skemp »

cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

At work: our campus has a local instance running, likely for code security issues, and so it integrates with our login service. Integrates nicely with JIRA and TeamCity as well.

Personally: I leverage both GitHub and GitLab. GitHub has the greater community, but GitLab Pages is far easier to use. So my workflow process is to have GitLab mirror GitHub repos.

Free private repos was a feature of GitLab, but once GitHub implemented that it just resulted in me dropping the paid tier I was on.

So I guess GitLab Pages is the feature I use it for the most.

Re: Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

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Post by jfim »

LennyWhiteJr wrote: post #35
cj wrote: post #3

Question to current Gitlab users: Why do you use Gitlab instead of Github? What are the killer features that make it worth switching to?

Can self-host behind an enterprise firewall and get all the benefits of open-source software model within the company without exposing proprietary software projects to the whole world.

There's GitHub Enterprise if one wants to self host.
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