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Gitlab is a big name with a big headcount and a big… I don’t want to sound rude here, but a big ego, too. What does my org use it for? A git repository to whi

Gitlab is a big name with a big headcount and a big… I don’t want to sound rude here, but a big ego, too. What does my org use it for? A git repository to which we can push and pull, CI, and code review. I constantly feel like I’m missing a party of awesome features and stuff and I feel that way because what Gitlab does for me compared with the perception it projects into the world seem different by several orders of magnitude. What are all these amazing features they are building, which require such a huge team, that I’m missing? I don’t want ACLs. I don’t need per project visibility. We already have task tracking and a wiki. Will Gitlab offer to run my payroll, when I already have software to do that? Is there a calendar app and have they built their own date selector widgets? Those are shark jumping moments for any project so I hope it’s not that bad. Gitlab feels a bit like a microwave oven that has a popcorn mode, alarm clock, and built in calculator when all I want is X hundred watts for Y seconds. Ps: poking around their sales site, Gitlab is going after Jira, I guess. Oof.

blep_ 4y ago
A lot of companies feel that way, tbh. Capitalism encourages growth. It's considered weird to just stop building things when you've built everything you initially wanted to.
- rleigh 4y ago
  It's understandable, but at the same time it also feels like they are pushing away the very people who should be their core customer base. My paid subscription ends later this month and it isn't being renewed; I'm reverting to the "free" subscription. I'm prefer not to. I would like to pay them for the service they are providing, but like many SaaS companies they have created a pricing structure that does not have anything in between "free" and "very expensive". GitLab might be value for money if you use every bell and whistle in the tier you pay for, but if you don't the value proposition does not seem to be there. I understand that I'm likely not one of the corporate "whales" they are after, but I would like to think that there would have been a solid, if less profitable, business in providing services to the smaller outfits as well. They have lost me as a customer, and not because I want to be cheap, but because I can't justify the value of their updated pricing model. I would even pay for some of the open source projects I host there because I don't like to be a freeloader, but again the gap between "free" and the first paid tier is simply too great.
randomopining 4y ago
Imagine trying to rebuild Jira. Essentially making a super complicated crud app lol

blep_ 4y ago

A lot of companies feel that way, tbh. Capitalism encourages growth. It's considered weird to just stop building things when you've built everything you initially wanted to.

rleigh 4y ago
It's understandable, but at the same time it also feels like they are pushing away the very people who should be their core customer base. My paid subscription ends later this month and it isn't being renewed; I'm reverting to the "free" subscription. I'm prefer not to. I would like to pay them for the service they are providing, but like many SaaS companies they have created a pricing structure that does not have anything in between "free" and "very expensive". GitLab might be value for money if you use every bell and whistle in the tier you pay for, but if you don't the value proposition does not seem to be there. I understand that I'm likely not one of the corporate "whales" they are after, but I would like to think that there would have been a solid, if less profitable, business in providing services to the smaller outfits as well. They have lost me as a customer, and not because I want to be cheap, but because I can't justify the value of their updated pricing model. I would even pay for some of the open source projects I host there because I don't like to be a freeloader, but again the gap between "free" and the first paid tier is simply too great.

randomopining 4y ago

Imagine trying to rebuild Jira. Essentially making a super complicated crud app lol