GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation • Hacker News Board

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by veidr » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 11:44 AM UTC

mszyndel wrote: post #119

blazespin wrote: post #112

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Agreed, the valuation makes no sense to me. There's really no switching costs that I see. Bitbucket is actually superior in many ways because of its tight integration with Atlassian - the real Microsoft Word of the Developer community. Sourceforge had this kind of play at one point and look at it now. Maybe they're going to start displaying ads for jobs for developers. Not sure that's worth 2B though...

Yet to meet a developer who's as excited about using Jira as about using Github issues...

Well, now you have met several.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by lojack » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 1:12 PM UTC

JimmaDaRustla wrote: post #389

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Word had massive amounts of competition. WordPerfect dominated the market well before Microsoft Word, was the biggest competitor for a long time, and still remains popular in niche applications. Lotus Word Pro, WordStar, StarOffice, and countless other lesser used products. Arguably, word processors are the one piece of software that probably has had the most competition throughout the years.

If that was true, where are they now? I remember some of these products as being wretched, and Word was our saviour, even with it's terrible formatting sometimes.

WordPerfect is still being used widely in the legal fields. StarOffice was open sourced and became OpenOffice and more recently has been forked into LibreOffice. Since we're now talking about more modern competition there's also Google Docs and iWork (for Mac only). All of these word processors are very widely used.

Either way, you were making the claim that Microsoft Word had very little competition, while GitHub has overwhelming competition. This is very far from the truth. Microsoft Word has and has always had very healthy competition in much the same way that GitHub has plenty of competition. Like it or not, at this point in time GitHub is the golden standard, while the competition is riding in their coattails. Very similar to Microsoft Word.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by GBond » Fri, Jul 31, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

hrayr wrote: post #16

"The company’s co-founders were inspired by a tech talk given at Google Inc. in 2007 by Linus Torvalds" funny how many successful companies are founded after getting inspiration from a single talk.

I recall one of the co-founders of posted a long comment on the origin of Github.

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by gabesullice » Wed, Aug 05, 2015, 3:26 AM UTC

jlarocco wrote: post #91

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I get that when it's just a personal project, but the Github workflow is also very nice to have. When I want a buddy to access my private repo, I just add his/her GitHub user name, I don't need to have them create a BitBucket account. I don't need to figure out how issues and PRs work with BitBucket, etc. It's the network effects and UI that I'm paying for - one UI private or public. Plus, it supports a service I val…

> On a more important note, you're probably not GitHub's target market. It's more like agencies and in-house dev teams. That's technically true, but ignores the fact that the target market is only paying GitHub because it's popular among developers. If GitHub upsets enough developers, they'll switch to something else for their personal projects, and start recommending other things at work. The type of companies that…

Fair point

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by bmir-alum-007 » Sat, Aug 08, 2015, 2:37 AM UTC

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What is "Active Directory provisioning"? Is this just an alternative way to authenticate users with the wiki similar to LDAP?

Active Directory is a whole bunch of stuff build on top of something that looks like LDAP except less sucky, and it lets you do many things from setting permissions to sharing printers and deploying software. It's not something to be installed during a lazy Friday afternoon following a 'AD 101' tutorial though.

Yup. Basically, apps that do MS-specific LDAP queries to AD or something emulating it (Samba). It's also often useful for apps to be allow admin users to tweak the actual LDAP queries in case they have a custom enterprise-wise schema. Stanford, for example, used AD as the "single source of truth" with another LDAP setup for *NIX. (In addition to a modified version of MIT Krb5 with AFS integrations.)

Re: GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation

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Post by shlant » Mon, Aug 10, 2015, 7:32 PM UTC

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The only benefit I have ever seen with Bitbucket is it is priced per user instead of per repo which is only a benefit if you have smaller teams. The very first project I created for myself in my new role was to move everything out of Bitbucket to GitHub. Github is so ubiquitous that it too has very good integration with Jira. It's popularity alone means that essentially anything that has version control integration h…

Searching through source code in github is horrible. It only searches through the content and completly ignores filenames which makes it absolutely useless to me.

what? Github has a separate search for filenames. It's called the 'file finder' and is activated by pressing 't' when viewing a repo.