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I am still curious why they stopped offering their original service. What was the feedback from users? Why did developers not want to use it?
by pksunkara 8mo ago
I am still curious why they stopped offering their original service. What was the feedback from users? Why did developers not want to use it?
- wahnfrieden 8mo agoprobably ai became the bigger opportunity
- fat 8mo agoAhh good question… Here's the timeline if you're interested. 3 years ago we started building a direct competitor to GitHub with the theory that you need to build code storage, code review and CI to truly compete. We spent about a year prototyping this all out, raised some money, and then started building this for real [tm]. Code storage felt like a HUGE moat for GitHub. Most of our competitors in the code review space: - graphite - linear - (now cognition) - etc All built directly on GitHub's apis – but we wanted to go down to the metal (something wrong with us). A year and half into doing this, a few folks reached out and asked how we were scaling git… i waved my hands around a bunch and explained how hard of a distributed systems problem scaling git was… explained git three-phase commits, etc. Fast forward a few more months, and we started standing up single tenant clusters of our infra for a few different codegen companies that also needed storage solutions. And now here we are :)