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Why is GitHub or HN free?
by dvh 2y ago
Why is GitHub or HN free?
- dartos 2y agoGitHub is free for normal users (mostly) bc enterprise customers pay a lot for it and it gives Microsoft a lot of pull in the open source community. HN is free bc it’s a ycombinator recruiting tool and is probably cheap to run.
- kissgyorgy 2y agoGitHub is not free, HN is not a product, but a marketing tool for YC.
- gigatexal 2y agoThere is a free tier to GitHub.
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- MissTake 2y ago“Free - The basics for individuals and organizations: $0 USD per month forever” https://github.com/pricing https://github.com/pricing
- nottorp 2y agoOh... they actually say "forever". I don't think MS has a cunning plan to suddenly start charging again for the basic plan, but still forever is a long time. Incidentally it's the only money I pay Microsoft (with the exception of a few windows licenses). I was on the $7 plan for unlimited private repos when github was independent and I got converted to some $4 plan after the buyout. I never bothered to research if i actually need the $4 plan or I could switch to free.
- drpossum 2y agoDo... do you think this site is just some completely altruistic hobby project divorced from what ycombinator's ends are?
- amarant 2y agoFor wildly different reasons. GitHub is free for individuals and small teams so that big corporations feel compelled to use their products, since all of their employees are accustomed to those already. I'm less familiar with the financial workings of y-combinator but it's a great PR move and a recruiting tool. Someone more familiar with the matter might be able to expand on this.
- yodon 2y agoFacebook and Google sell advertising, so they sell their users. GitHub and HN sell things (hosting and startup jobs & equity), so they sell to their users. There is a big difference between selling your users and selling to your users.