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This is sort of a whole product, but it’s hardly managing the whole company. Financials? HR? Contracts? Pictures of the last team meeting?

It just looks like a normal frontend+backend product monorepo, with the only somewhat unusual inclusion of the marketing folder.

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It's worth noting with a few clicks from the linked article, you can find that this company is (at least according to LinkedIn) a single person. Which explains how the whole company can fit into a repo. But also makes you question how valuable the "insights" here are, like obviously a single-person project should be using a monorepo...

Ah, so "our" company is referring to "me and Claude"? Actually. Claude might be a pretty good co-founder. Half the job is therapy conversations anyway. :)

have you ever heart that google is also one repo? at least it was until 2015. don’t know the story later. So it doesn’t have to be one person company. yet they are making billions

Google isn’t a monorepo since the acquisition of Android. That one never made it into google3.

I'm not making any claims about monorepo being good or bad and I'm fully aware large companies have monorepos (or at least very large repos). I'm saying that the fact it's a one-person "company" needs to be taken into account when talking about how applicable their experience is to other companies.

Yes but AI! AI!

Not even infrastructure as code is in the repository from what one can see.

i am actually eagerly waiting for someone to show the real-deal: actually everything in a github repo, including 'artfiacts', or atleast those artifacts which can't be reconstructed from the repo itself.

maybe they could be encrypted, and you could say "well its everything but the encryption key, which is owned in physical form by the CEO."

theres a lot of power i think to have everything in one place. maybe github could add the notion of private folders? but now thats ACLs... probably pushing the tool way too far.

    maybe they could be encrypted, and you could say "well its everything but the
    encryption key, which is owned in physical form by the CEO."

I don't see how this is any different from most projects where keys and the like are kept in some form of secrets manager (AWS services, GHA Secrets, Hashi Vault, etc.).

https://dev.azure.com/byteterrace/Koholint/_git/Azure.Resour...

How close do you think this is? Deploys everything but the actual backend/frontend code.

At a previous job we put compilers and standard libraries in version control, with custom tooling to pull the right version for what you need.

We used p4 rather than git though.

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