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It's tough when your competition can give away their product and fund it through their bottomless pockets and money they make on other products. I used to work
by markmark 8y ago
It's tough when your competition can give away their product and fund it through their bottomless pockets and money they make on other products.
I used to work for a great company in the developer tooling area, one of the big players came directly after us, ramped up a team, started copying our features and gave the product away for free. We were still doing well when I left, but it'll be interesting to see how it goes over the next few years.
- closetCS 8y agoThis might be a naive comment, but isn't that predatory pricing. By dropping prices to zero and trying to purposely hurt your competitors, you effectively gain a monopoly on that industry.
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- aarongray 8y agoGithub's competitors are already providing the same service for free. Github is dropping their prices from $7 / mo to free to compete.
- dogweather 8y agoBut they're not. They created a new, feature-reduced repo type to make free/private. The marketing hides this, and you need to dig to the "Comparison" section to see it: https://github.com/pricing#feature-comparison https://github.com/pricing#feature-comparison
- aarongray 8y agoGood point, it's not the exact same. But their new offering is much closer to what their competitors are offering, so I'd say it's still a move to try to better compete with the free offerings from other companies.