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Beautiful free Git repository hosting service

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A few screenshots wouldn't hurt if it's advertised as "Beautiful". Also the "Blog" is just a blank page for me: https://gitgo.io/blog

that's error 500

https://twitter.com/GitGoHQ/media seems nice though.

No offense but I feel like I'm being dishonestly marketed to from your landing page

The biggest thing is the tagline is "Simple, free version control" but after checking your pricing (which is buried in the footer) you have tiered pricing just like everyone else in this space, albeit with a different pricing scheme. Obviously it costs money to run and I would never expect a service like this to be completely free, but why pretend like your differentiator is being free?

Another smaller thing is your 100% SLA. Clicking through to the fine print again, you offer 5% of the cost back per 30 min downtime per month. 30 min per month is "only" between 3 & 4 nines (plus even if you miss that you only refund 5% of the cost not a full refund so it's a pretty soft promise anyway). As with the price I have no problem with the actual SLA, 99.95% uptime seems reasonable, I just feel like you're trying to trick me as someone coming to your site.

To be honest we have been focusing on our app and service more then our marketing techniques.

The points you have made are valid and we will be addressing as soon as possible.

The SLA is inline with other competitors but maybe it should be more a 'refund policy'.

So far we have not had any downtime.

Makes sense, I get that getting the product right for the first customers is the top priority. Just wanted to share my initial reaction. Good luck with the service.

One huge thing missing from this is a demonstration of the UI and features.

Also, "Instant Deployments" is pretty confusing. Is this a self hosted/licensed product or saas?

I was pretty confused and intrigued by "instant deployments" as well.

If you go to their help docs, you can see that they can integrate directly with a few services (digital ocean and another that I can't remember) to "instantly deploy" your app.

We have a page showing our deployment process but It was removed recently as it's being improved.

We connect to any ssh service and run the commands to deploy your application using GIT.

This saves you from having to setup hooks.

Deployments can be automatically triggered.

Too bad it will never work with CodeClimate, Travis-Ci, etc. We have many Git hosting sites to choose from; but the reality is that few 3rd party sites integrate with anything other than Github.

If they mirror the Github API, it's certainly possible. That's been the key to Gitlab's wide adoption -- Gitlab is compatible with both CodeClimate and Travis-CI.

We are working on supporting CodeClimate and will hopefully have something to report very soon.

Quick note: there's a spelling mistake on https://gitgo.io/get-started under issue tracking. Mange should be Manage.

Thank you, corrected.

What's the maximum repository size and file size ?

Most other services i know:

- Github is somewhere at around 1GB.

- Bitbucket has a soft limit at also 1GB.

Soft limit of 1GB

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