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- It's not "readdly need", but a universal, stable, and low-cost solution can save a lot of time and money.by JasonYellow
- Companies like to reduce risk and unknowns. Paying $500/mo for Git that is run by somebody else is predictable. Having your self hosted Git potentially go down and block releases, block hot fixes, block that big marketing launch, etc is not a risk you want looming over your head because it's not predictable.by leros
- Imho I don’t think small teams need GitHub . I build dsci - fast and lightweight self hosted git and ci system . It’s very easy to use and very soon will have essential minimum features set. I believe that the importance of big saas in overestimatedby melezhik
- What makes it lightweight, and how does it boost your development over other saas solutions?by stephenway
- The reason why small and large companies use github (or any other SaaS) is simple: building and maintaining that service is not something that will help that company move forward. Spending the amount of time to build it, integrate everything, maintain all those integrations is time they could have spent building whatever software their company actually sells.
With the advent of AI, people are probably thinking its easy to clone services like this and many others. Sure a 1.0 might be easy to stand up but you've got to now patch it, maintain it, extend it, integrate more tools into it, and keep it running better than github. People may joke/sneer at uptime metrics but when internal tools at a software company are down or worse, buggy and causing issues with delivery, its more painful than checking a status page to see when its back.
- If AI Factories somehow make Day 2 ops of managing such services in house with a fixed cost on the balance sheet we might have a different future.by Chnmy