Re:GitLab Direction
by akerl_ on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:02AM
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The initial GitLab UI felt a lot like a direct copy from GitHub.
I'd consider "normal business" to be some combination of creating new benefits for your service that your competitors don't have and replicating the kinds of benefits they add, hopefully doing them better.
As an example: both GitHub and GitLab have recently launched features in the "security monitoring for your projects" space, but they're both independently good features. Had GitLab launched the feature and then GitHub just copied all the css/js and stood up a clone of it, I'd consider that to be highly questionable.
I'd consider "normal business" to be some combination of creating new benefits for your service that your competitors don't have and replicating the kinds of benefits they add, hopefully doing them better.
As an example: both GitHub and GitLab have recently launched features in the "security monitoring for your projects" space, but they're both independently good features. Had GitLab launched the feature and then GitHub just copied all the css/js and stood up a clone of it, I'd consider that to be highly questionable.