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I've used GitLab before as an enterprise type installation and it was okay but I had no idea you offered GitHub like hosting. When I visit your site it looks li
by BinaryIdiot 12y ago
I've used GitLab before as an enterprise type installation and it was okay but I had no idea you offered GitHub like hosting. When I visit your site it looks like there are no free options but Google Code was meant to house open source projects for free just like GitHub and BitBucket.
Do you have free hosting for open source? If not then I don't think it makes sense for them to mention your service.
Edit: As pointed out below GitLab.com actually has free public and private repository hosting. It took me a while to find it on the website. That's pretty cool!
- jszymborski 12y agoBoth open and private repos on GitLab are free :D
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoOkay thanks I found that info here https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/ Figured I'd find it on the home page or under pricing or something.
- sytse 12y agoIt is the third link on the homepage, that says "Sign up for GitLab.com with unlimited free (private) repositories and collaborators.". But we're open to suggestions to make it more obvious. It is hard to communicate downloads and a saas.
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoAh for whatever reason I didn't see that at all.
- sytse 12y agoNo problem, it is not that obvious, any suggestions how to make it more findable without messing up the other options are welcome.
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoWell for me personally I always head straight to the pricing page of any service I'm interested in and I didn't see any mention of the repository hosting you do there. Is that just for support / enterprise installations? Might be helpful to mention it there. But beyond that I dunno.
- sytse 12y agoIt is mentioned there but pretty low on the page, "Sign up for our free GitLab.com service if you want to use GitLab without installing it.". What do you think?
- BinaryIdiot 12y agoAh I saw that but didn't know what it meant. Personally I like boundlessdreamz's idea :)
- sytse 12y agoMe too! I've incorporated some of his idea's in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/3a09175f3132b0fa436a6acc27e8d8466690b194 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/commit/3a09175f...
- boundlessdreamz 12y agoI think that's because you are promoting the Gitlab Enterprise edition. It is very easy to miss the third blurb which promotes the free repos. Compare this to bitbucket.org front page (Free private repos are upfront). Github.com frontpage is not as clear but they don't need to I think what Gitlab.com needs is a template like this - Free Private Repos - Host it on Gitlab.com - Need to host it on your servers? Get our open source edition - Need enterprise support/features? Get our enterprise edition and host it on your servers Btw do you offer enterprise features on gitlab.com? It was not very clear Also your pricing page needs to be clear about the different versions. There are at least 3 different Gitlab products (free gitlab.com, gitlab ce, gitlab ee) but the information is easy to miss. In your homepage, the three blurbs (download and install.., pricing for spport.., signup for gitlab.com..) feel like 3 product features rather than 3 different products.
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