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GitGo looks amazing, but honestly trying to compete against GitHub / GitHub Enterprise, and BitBucket seems daunting. There is just so much more of a community

GitGo looks amazing, but honestly trying to compete against GitHub / GitHub Enterprise, and BitBucket seems daunting. There is just so much more of a community and familiarity with GitHub and BitBucket. Also with pricing starting at $5 and capping at $25 your going to need a gigantic amount of paying customers just to get to a reasonably sustainable MRR of $20,000. GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.

sytse 12y ago
GitLab CEO here, for us it is certainly the case that most revenue comes from the on-premises installs. Maybe that is why GitHub is 'serious about the enterprise' [1]. It certainly is why we offer GitLab.com for free (including private repos and git-annex support, optionally you can pay for email support) [2]. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-development/github-s-new-ceo--we-re-serious-about-the-enterprise.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-develop... [2] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ (edited to make this more about our experience)
- PhilipClifton 12y ago
  GitLab is a truly brilliant service that brings enterprise hosting to the masses. We find that customers coming to GitGo are medium sized business that don't want to have to manage / be responsible for their codes safety.
  - sytse 12y ago
    Thanks for you kind comment Philip. I like the look of your service, it looks awesome.
holman 12y ago
> GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans. Whoa, didn't expect that at all. Super interesting. Do you have a source for that?
- nodesocket 12y ago
  Hey Zach. I've talked with a few people who previously worked on the GitHub enterprise team (both in sales and engineering). However, I suppose that I can't say it with 100% certainty. Are you aware of something different?
  - holman 12y ago
    Just messing with you. :) Your assumption is wrong.
    - Touche 12y ago
      So what is the truth?
    - nodesocket 12y ago
      Very interesting... So your saying that GitHub enterprise does not make up the lion's share of yearly revenue? I'm almost certain I heard Tom Preston-Werner say this as well.
  - sjs382 12y ago
    FYI: http://zachholman.com/about http://zachholman.com/about
- deleted 12y ago
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PhilipClifton 12y ago
We do offer bigger than $25 accounts however we don't have them on the prices page as want to encourage large accounts to get in contact with us to offer a competitive rate. We will likely offer enterprise at some point however we offer services like deployments that wouldn't be easy to setup out of our infrastructure. Thanks for your feedback.

sytse 12y ago

GitLab CEO here, for us it is certainly the case that most revenue comes from the on-premises installs. Maybe that is why GitHub is 'serious about the enterprise' [1]. It certainly is why we offer GitLab.com for free (including private repos and git-annex support, optionally you can pay for email support) [2]. [1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-development/github-s-new-ceo--we-re-serious-about-the-enterprise.html http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-develop... [2] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ (edited to make this more about our experience)

PhilipClifton 12y ago
GitLab is a truly brilliant service that brings enterprise hosting to the masses. We find that customers coming to GitGo are medium sized business that don't want to have to manage / be responsible for their codes safety.
- sytse 12y ago
  Thanks for you kind comment Philip. I like the look of your service, it looks awesome.

holman 12y ago

> GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans. Whoa, didn't expect that at all. Super interesting. Do you have a source for that?

nodesocket 12y ago
Hey Zach. I've talked with a few people who previously worked on the GitHub enterprise team (both in sales and engineering). However, I suppose that I can't say it with 100% certainty. Are you aware of something different?
- holman 12y ago
  Just messing with you. :) Your assumption is wrong.
  - Touche 12y ago
    So what is the truth?
  - nodesocket 12y ago
    Very interesting... So your saying that GitHub enterprise does not make up the lion's share of yearly revenue? I'm almost certain I heard Tom Preston-Werner say this as well.
- sjs382 12y ago
  FYI: http://zachholman.com/about http://zachholman.com/about
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PhilipClifton 12y ago

We do offer bigger than $25 accounts however we don't have them on the prices page as want to encourage large accounts to get in contact with us to offer a competitive rate. We will likely offer enterprise at some point however we offer services like deployments that wouldn't be easy to setup out of our infrastructure. Thanks for your feedback.