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this is actually quite surprising to me given what their product is...

• adamrezich 5y ago
  this is what I was thinking. I installed a gitlab instance on an old laptop for a friend and myself to use to collaborate on a couple small projects a few years back. I haven't checked in to see what gitlab offers today but I'm having a mental disconnect between all those millions of dollars and what my understanding of the product is. there must be something the product offers that I'm ignorant to that justifies all that money.
  • Gigachad 5y ago
    GitLab is not just a git hosting and collaboration tool. They want it to be the single tool you use for almost everything to do with an application including monitoring, controlling infrastructure, error logging, project management/planning, security auditing, and a bunch of other things. If you are using GitLab in a hobbyist or solo way, you are touching about 5% of the features that GitLab provides. Which is fine and a valid way to use it but its easy to see how customers justify spending big dollars on the top plan with hundreds of user licenses when the tool does so much. We even have customer support and project managers using the tool because it caters to them well. If you want you can even use gitlab to replace something like zendesk as it provides an email address which puts all emails in to a "support desk" queue.