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I’m curious why it took you guys so long to do a Launch HN considering you are from YC S19 — a batch from 4 years ago?! Is GitStart a significant pivot from wh

• hzia 3y ago
  GitStart is one of those services that are "too good to be true". Getting customers or devs to sign up was easy, so we never really did a launch. The harder part was getting the system to work (aka ship solid PRs while delivering a good growth path for juniors). Most of the time was spent building a ton of in-house tech (especially around security, dev environments, review environments and so on) We are now in a better position to automatically onboarding engineering teams (and later this year do the same for devs to sign up and start to ship PRs on the platform)
• shortrounddev2 3y ago
  Probably less demand for remote outsourcing back in 2019 as today, post-pandemic
  • hzia 3y ago
    It was a day and night difference during and post-pandemic. I used to get on calls to try to explain the value of writing tickets and creating PRs for reasonable sized teams (many orgs were trunk based). That discussion doesnt happen often anymore! I wonder if companies will double down on full remote or this will revert back slightly.