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github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

by Dobbs 10y ago

chipgap98 10y ago
Price isn't a product differentiator?
- elliotec 10y ago
  The feature isn't a product differentiator.
  - Whitestrake 10y ago
    If I had unlimited money, I could hire an army of coders to write me a git platform with all the features I want, and host it on all the servers, everywhere. It's simply not feasible to talk about product features in a vacuum without considering the costs. Price is a feature.
- deleted 10y ago
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FireBeyond 10y ago
No-one said it was. But the answer of self-hosting is a perfectly valid answer for "Why the love for GitLab?" when one = $0 in licensing, and the other = > $2,500/year in licensing.
- yamaneko 10y ago
  Plus, not too long ago, GitHub restricted the number of free private repositories, for users and educational organizations. Although they offered educational plans for labs, it still had its limitations. Thus, free self-hosting was what attracted us to use GitLab in our lab.
- Dobbs 10y ago
  > No-one said it was. That is literally what the comment I replied to said. That "self hosting" was a reason to root for gitlab.
  - FireBeyond 10y ago
    "Reason to root for GitLab" does not necessarily equal "product differentiator". Similar to the "you can't use price to differentiate the two" - why not?
- irq11 10y ago
  so basically, you like it because it's free. doesn't speak well for their business prospects.
  - FireBeyond 10y ago
    Actually, we pay for GitLab EE. GitLab's pricing model won a lot of people when GitHub's was ugly for anyone who wanted private repos (single guy at home with 10+ private repos for things like your dot files, etc? $20+ a month, for what likely amounted to under 1MB of disk space).
    - irq11 10y ago
      Ok, so change "free" to "cheaper", and the point remains: you like it because they charge less. Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.
mgkimsal 10y ago
If I can only afford one, then the price is definitely a differentiator.

github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

by Dobbs 10y ago

github has self-hosting. It is a little pricey but that is not a product differentiator.

chipgap98 10y ago

Price isn't a product differentiator?

elliotec 10y ago
The feature isn't a product differentiator.
- Whitestrake 10y ago
  If I had unlimited money, I could hire an army of coders to write me a git platform with all the features I want, and host it on all the servers, everywhere. It's simply not feasible to talk about product features in a vacuum without considering the costs. Price is a feature.
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FireBeyond 10y ago

No-one said it was. But the answer of self-hosting is a perfectly valid answer for "Why the love for GitLab?" when one = $0 in licensing, and the other = > $2,500/year in licensing.

yamaneko 10y ago
Plus, not too long ago, GitHub restricted the number of free private repositories, for users and educational organizations. Although they offered educational plans for labs, it still had its limitations. Thus, free self-hosting was what attracted us to use GitLab in our lab.
Dobbs 10y ago
> No-one said it was. That is literally what the comment I replied to said. That "self hosting" was a reason to root for gitlab.
- FireBeyond 10y ago
  "Reason to root for GitLab" does not necessarily equal "product differentiator". Similar to the "you can't use price to differentiate the two" - why not?
irq11 10y ago
so basically, you like it because it's free. doesn't speak well for their business prospects.
- FireBeyond 10y ago
  Actually, we pay for GitLab EE. GitLab's pricing model won a lot of people when GitHub's was ugly for anyone who wanted private repos (single guy at home with 10+ private repos for things like your dot files, etc? $20+ a month, for what likely amounted to under 1MB of disk space).
  - irq11 10y ago
    Ok, so change "free" to "cheaper", and the point remains: you like it because they charge less. Still, most people in HN threads use it because it's free. Which is great for an open source tool, but bad for an unprofitable, VC-funded startup.

mgkimsal 10y ago

If I can only afford one, then the price is definitely a differentiator.