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Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going. tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a to…

What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?

We've put a lot of work into our system so far; I don't want or plan to switch over to GitHub for my private projects anytime in the prospective future.

My co-founder and I run under the philosophy that we create tools that we ourselves use. Legit Teams is no exception; we believe in the service and have no plans of discontinuing it.

Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Just created a test account. Pretty slick for a side project. Love the TODO list feature. Like others have mentioned i too worry about the pricing though. I have several people pushing each day and pulls from multiple servers as i deploy straight from the git repo. Slow pushes are the worst and at this price range i dont see you guys making that work once people really start using your product. I think it actually lo…

Thanks for the kind words.

I can't foresee all scaling issues that may come to pass; for what it's worth, I can tell you that I have trust in the people behind Legit Teams to solve these problems.

In turn, I can only ask for you to try our service and see if pushing becomes a problem. I'd then love to hear your feedback via our contact page based on your experience.

Re: Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams

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Competing on price - this is very low margin, even with negligible storage and bandwidth costs - when GitHub is already in the "dollar per repo" range seems like a good idea until you realize that your target market (poor students) might not want to give you anything. I strongly recommend that you read the first of the Copy Hacks books: the one on messaging. Key is the insights on identifying the motivations of your…

Do you have a link for "the Copy Hacks books"? Haven't read about them.

http://copyhackers.com/

Sorry for the delay!

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