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GitGo looks amazing, but honestly trying to compete against GitHub / GitHub Enterprise, and BitBucket seems daunting. There is just so much more of a community and familiarity with GitHub and BitBucket.

Also with pricing starting at $5 and capping at $25 your going to need a gigantic amount of paying customers just to get to a reasonably sustainable MRR of $20,000. GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.

GitLab CEO here, for us it is certainly the case that most revenue comes from the on-premises installs. Maybe that is why GitHub is 'serious about the enterprise' [1]. It certainly is why we offer GitLab.com for free (including private repos and git-annex support, optionally you can pay for email support) [2].

[1] http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608907/application-develop... [2] https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/

(edited to make this more about our experience)

GitLab is a truly brilliant service that brings enterprise hosting to the masses.

We find that customers coming to GitGo are medium sized business that don't want to have to manage / be responsible for their codes safety.

Thanks for you kind comment Philip. I like the look of your service, it looks awesome.

> GitHub makes nearly ALL of their revenue from GitHub Enterprise, there is not enough money in their standard monthly plans.

Whoa, didn't expect that at all. Super interesting. Do you have a source for that?

Hey Zach.

I've talked with a few people who previously worked on the GitHub enterprise team (both in sales and engineering). However, I suppose that I can't say it with 100% certainty. Are you aware of something different?

Just messing with you. :) Your assumption is wrong.

So what is the truth?

Very interesting... So your saying that GitHub enterprise does not make up the lion's share of yearly revenue? I'm almost certain I heard Tom Preston-Werner say this as well.

FYI: http://zachholman.com/about

We do offer bigger than $25 accounts however we don't have them on the prices page as want to encourage large accounts to get in contact with us to offer a competitive rate.

We will likely offer enterprise at some point however we offer services like deployments that wouldn't be easy to setup out of our infrastructure.

Thanks for your feedback.

I must agree with Nodesocket in regards to pricing. I don't think users will pay for it just because it's "beautiful". You might want to focus on the more enterprise customers.

Adding to this, I don't understand your current pricing structure. The only difference the packages seem to have is storage. I get it, pay for what you don't use is a great way of making money but I don't believe customers are still falling for this. Why not simply pay for the storage you're using?

There are a few reasons we don't offer that payment structure.

- It would be hard to monitor. - We want people to free to host even their smallest repositories. - Stripe doesn't allow it.

Thanks for your feedback.

@gitgohq: You seem to be hellbanned (probably for spamming, given your posting history), so people might not see your answers.

Typo on the /new-account page:

"Your only a moment away..." should be "You're" (or "You are") not "Your".

Looks clean and simple, though. I like that pricing is based on data stored instead of number of repos or users.

GitLab CEO here, compliments on the nice design of your service!

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