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It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design.

I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later.

The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at some point). That means we could be happy at the $5 month range.

If you get 1000 customers X $5, you're making $5000/month. I make way more than that as an employee.

Of course, you have people that will need more than 2GB but I think it's rare.

tl;dr raise your prices. I think it will help you get more business.

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We created Legit Teams because we ourselves needed a service like it. As such, we don't view this as a business that's going to make us millions of dollars so much as a product that we'd love for both us and others to use. In turn, making enough money to simply handle our costs is really enough for us to keep this going.

tl;dr We're not raising prices or shutting Legit Teams down because it's not a business, but a tool that we use, and will keep using. Having others on board is a bonus! :)

What happens when you become large enough to justify an organization account at GitHub and it no longer becomes beneficial for you to either use or continue to operate Legit Teams?

Push to GitHub since every Git repo retains full history by default.

I think the question was directed at the founders, not the users. What happens to the users of the service when the founders no longer have any use for it?

We've put a lot of work into our system so far; I don't want or plan to switch over to GitHub for my private projects anytime in the prospective future.

My co-founder and I run under the philosophy that we create tools that we ourselves use. Legit Teams is no exception; we believe in the service and have no plans of discontinuing it.

There are 30 developers on the project I work on. So if you get 1000 customers just like us. You're making $5000/month to handle the load of 30,000 daily users. Chances are you'll have to handle support too.

Not sure if we're typical or how much load 30,000 users would generate. Personally, I pull/push at least once a day. Just something for you to keep in mind.

I see your point. There's little I can say about handling 30,000 daily users along with support, though; what this really entails will only be determined by time if we get to that stage.

Thank you for your thoughts.

Good luck with Legit Teams - one thing I'd highly suggest is introducing annual prices, at least as an option.

There's no way I'm going through the hassle of expensing $5 a month, but $60 for a years service isn't going to raise any queries with finance.

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