$1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)

#51

Post by agustif » Wed, Mar 11, 2020, 11:37 PM UTC

dominotw wrote: post #26

I think gitlab has a huge advantage in remote work as in their mission is clearly understood by their employees ( to clone github.com). Its a very outsourcable class of problem where requirements are clearly understood and employees aren't required to really come up anything new or innovative. I am yet to see a 100% remote company thats doing something brand new and innovative.

C'mon that's just unfair. GitHub is Microsoft now, I for one I'm glad gitlab exists even if I don't personally use it much, but it's a nice replacement if centralized microsoft-owned github goes down like it has been in the last weeks/months...

Basecamp has a lot of competition and probably some frontend clones maybe, but I don't think it could be called unoriginall or a copycat of any of it's competitors (Todoist,Asana,Etc)

They also have great (free) books on working remote like REWORK. Maybe you like that example better?

Anyways nothing in life is black or white

Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)

#52

Post by dominotw » Thu, Mar 12, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

agustif wrote: post #51

dominotw wrote: post #26

I think gitlab has a huge advantage in remote work as in their mission is clearly understood by their employees ( to clone github.com). Its a very outsourcable class of problem where requirements are clearly understood and employees aren't required to really come up anything new or innovative. I am yet to see a 100% remote company thats doing something brand new and innovative.

C'mon that's just unfair. GitHub is Microsoft now, I for one I'm glad gitlab exists even if I don't personally use it much, but it's a nice replacement if centralized microsoft-owned github goes down like it has been in the last weeks/months... Basecamp has a lot of competition and probably some frontend clones maybe, but I don't think it could be called unoriginall or a copycat of any of it's competitors (Todoist,As…

yes gitlab is nice, i use it personally. i wasn't implying otherwise. Gitlab is a copy of github, everything was exactly the same as github until few yrs ago. Like feature by feature replication. I really don't think they did anything truly innovative like github did.

>Anyways nothing in life is black or white

yea ofcourse, you seem to drawn a false implication that copycat = bad, which is obviously not the case like you pointed out.

Re: $1B Business Where All 700 Employees Work Remotely (2019)

#53

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 20, 2020, 1:16 AM UTC

PunchTornado wrote: post #50

rwmj wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Red Hat working is more remote than you'd think from the pure numbers, since even if you're working in an office your team won't all be in the same office. The team I'm in has people working in offices in CZ, around the US, the UK, Australia, and in China. So we work using remote tools anyway.

yes, but that's happening in every big company.

[deleted]