Legit Teams: Private git repository hosting tailored for small teams (opens in new tab)

It's undeniably an awesome deal and I really like the website design.

I get a little concerned about the business model. Almost to the point that it would prevent me from hosting my code with them for fear of them going out of business or raising their prices later.

The current git repo for the commercial product I work on is 850MB. This is millions of lines of code + 8-9 years of development (migrated from svn at some point). That means we could be happy at the $5 month range.

If you get 1000 customers X $5, you're making $5000/month. I make way more than that as an employee.

Of course, you have people that will need more than 2GB but I think it's rare.

tl;dr raise your prices. I think it will help you get more business.

You seem to be heavily focussed on Github's financial costs, but why should I use this over something like Bitbucket, which provides free hosting for small teams and very reasonable pricing for teams?

Competing on price - this is very low margin, even with negligible storage and bandwidth costs - when GitHub is already in the "dollar per repo" range seems like a good idea until you realize that your target market (poor students) might not want to give you anything.

I strongly recommend that you read the first of the Copy Hacks books: the one on messaging. Key is the insights on identifying the motivations of your users.

Best of luck!

Just created a test account. Pretty slick for a side project. Love the TODO list feature. Like others have mentioned i too worry about the pricing though. I have several people pushing each day and pulls from multiple servers as i deploy straight from the git repo. Slow pushes are the worst and at this price range i dont see you guys making that work once people really start using your product.

I think it actually looks better than bitbucket which some have mentioned which to me looks really cluttered.

I am not a student though so maybe i should not be looking at this as an option for a business anyway, but still...

Just curious - how are you planning to address the problem of ssh key lookup at scale ? Github hacked its own PAM module to read from MySQL, if I'm not wrong.

Bitbucket offers unlimited private git repos for individuals and small teams (upto 5 people) with no limits on storage... for free.

https://bitbucket.org/plans/

We're a small business with 20+ repositories and faced this problem long ago. GitHub pricing simply isn't tailored for small projects. We moved to SpringLoops which only charges for "active" projects, so we can close those projects that only get opened for an occasional fix/compile. I really miss GitHub and all the new features, but can't complain for the price.

Very nice. It looks like something I could use except that most of the repos I work on are public.

But I think evanbarter's question is valid: why this over BitBucket? Any compelling reasons...

2GB of space isn't all that much. That's the free plan assembla offers. We blew through it with a year of general disciplined use but every once in a while we dropped a DLL or game asset in and so the 3 people generated 2GB of git in a year. While it's possible to get rid of such assets from history permanently its complex and risks other data loss if you're not extremely cautious.

Just feedback to say that arranging for custom plans at 2GB seems low.

Immediately, the opening paragraph states that this service would be useful to "college students." However, Bitbucket offers their full unlimited package to college students with a .edu account, and this account lasts for a lifetime, even after graduation. Perhaps you could offer this deal to college students as well.

This is great. As a freelancer, I often reluctant to delete past client's repo. With this, I can keep all past projects' repo without blowing my wallet.

Edit: It would be great if they add support for DSA too.

So far, I loved the very polished interface and the reasonable pricing (this coming from a RepositoryHosting costumer). I'll push some code to try out. Congrats and good luck!

Codeplane is also a nice alternative. They offer 2gb for just U$9/month.

https://codeplane.com/

Competing on price is just fine. Please don't complicate things. I don't want anything else. Just a private repo will do. Thank you.

Sweet deal, guys. Keep up the great work

Excited to see this up and running!

Looks pretty promising