Good timing. This is what good marketing and agility looks like.
I've been impressed by GitLab. They moved very fast and made good progress recently. It is great to see competition, to what many (at least in start up land) considered a done deal in terms of a winner as far as hosted code is concerned. Remember someone was telling me "if your code is not on GitHub, it doesn't exist".
But then remember getting a sticker shock when we got a quote for GitHub Enterprise a few years back. Ended up picking Atlassian instead, besides the price it was the better ticket workflow, or maybe it was the wiki, I forgot. Anyway, I would have liked to have more choices at that point to look at. Now GitLab is a choice as well.
I have mixed feelings. Gitlab always reacts to Github stuff. It's a bit "too much" for my taste actually.
The Gitlab team seems awesome but these posts always read a bit forced-friendly. Yay we are all friends in this space and we see this and that trend and here are some benefits of gitlab over the competition in a thinly vailed "switch already" piece. I wish they'd just write "these price changes could suck for you, it's a good time to switch to us now".
I got a similar vibe from the posts in reaction to the "this is wrong with github" posts.
Well they have to be agressive but can't be inconsiderate. As a smaller company, can't wait around to see what happens, they have to move fast.
Responding to their biggest competetor is very smart. I like that they included prices and a comparison table. As opposed to say something too general like "here are our features", they know everyone will compare them GitHub, so they talk about it and compare directly.
I don't think their approach is veiled at all. It seems pretty obviousy. Saying "things like GitHub pricess suck" would be childish and irresponsible though.
I've been impressed by GitLab. They moved very fast and made good progress recently. It is great to see competition, to what many (at least in start up land) considered a done deal in terms of a winner as far as hosted code is concerned. Remember someone was telling me "if your code is not on GitHub, it doesn't exist".
But then remember getting a sticker shock when we got a quote for GitHub Enterprise a few years back. Ended up picking Atlassian instead, besides the price it was the better ticket workflow, or maybe it was the wiki, I forgot. Anyway, I would have liked to have more choices at that point to look at. Now GitLab is a choice as well.