Gitlab from YC to IPO

Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by dragontamer on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:03PM (#28866896)

Github is a website while Gitlab is software.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by bityard on Thursday October 14, 2021 @03:24PM (#28868792)

Gitlab is both actually

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by robinhood on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:16PM (#28870251)

Github is actually a web application, like Gitlab.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by dragontamer on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:25PM (#28870370)

Can you download Github and host a private Github instance? No? Then its web-only. Like Google Docs is web-only, while MS Word is offline.

Gitlab is hostable software. You can buy and host Gitlab on your own servers, in private. That makes it a fundamentally different market than Github.

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Re:Gitlab from YC to IPO by Kranar on Thursday October 14, 2021 @05:54PM (#28870696)

>Can you download Github and host a private Github instance?

Yes, that's what Github Enterprise Server is:

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