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pm90 on Jan 20, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Gitlab Handbook's HN Page

Is it Gitlabs goal to overthrow GitHub as the most popular code repository tool? Or are you catering to a specific/specialized section of the market?

I haven’t used Gitlab, but since this is HN I’ll throw an advice your way anyway: I would LOVE to see a really good code review tool. GitHub has made improvements, but I love reviewable and want at least one of GitHub/Gitlab to have a really amazing code review experience. Things like being able to organize discussions, encouraging better code review etiquette (somehow)… just make it possible for developers to review code.

polote on Jan 20, 2022 [–]

Gitlab is b2b enterprise and Github is b2c + b2b smb. Going down market is almost an impossible feat in business. And going up market is super hard.

In both case to be a success you need a complete reoorg or your company. Which makes it unlikely to happen

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