> both those companies' value propositions would fall off the face of the earth.
what do you think are their value propositions? I think they biggest part of their value proposition has to do with a centralized git repository as a service.
The centralized part is really important for most companies. To the point that many git users don't really understand it's decentralized nature.
To me, the primary value propositions are: issues, merge requests, comments on issues and merge requests, related stuff like tags/milestones/etc., and the ability to expose this stuff in a friendly way to project managers who don't use the commandline.
I guess since my team uses a self-hosted instance of GitLab, I'm biased and don't put any value on the social network aspect or the hosting aspect.
You could get these things by running a Phabricator istance - not much reason to pay for GitLab self-hosted version unless you really care about the support aspect and some of tgeir enterprise-focused niche features.
what do you think are their value propositions? I think they biggest part of their value proposition has to do with a centralized git repository as a service.
The centralized part is really important for most companies. To the point that many git users don't really understand it's decentralized nature.