why not a gitea or gitlab instance running on a few pi's or something? Why pay anything at all?
VC backed? Ya, you'd probably just pay someone else to handle it - it's not your money after all...
Bootstrapping with a friend as a side gig until you have something viable... you're probably going to go with the free/cheapest option possible - scaling up as necessary and not a second before.
Running your own infrastructure doesn’t cost nothing.
That's not what the Github page says.
> [..] we’re announcing that GitHub Enterprise is now included in Microsoft for Startups, a free program [..]
Am I reading in the wrong place? Or just reading it wrong?
They're giving select startups $1,000 monthly in free credits used to pay for GitHub Enterprise. That $1,000 isn't in addition to GH Enterprise being free.
It's unknown, but seems implied, if you can apply unused credits to their CI/CD and other offerings.
Sort of like their free Student offering which includes Azure, and others to get students hooked on using GitHub & Company products.