Do any startups use GitHub as a repository for their private proprietary code?
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The obvious drawback is storing a startup's (arguably) most valuable asset in an outside environment. Is this crazy to consider?
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Joseph Ruscio, CTO at http://librato.com
Votes by Rick Waldron, PJ Hyett, David Berrebi, William Pietri, and 39 more.
Assuming you are using Git, that means every developer you employ is running around with a complete repository history of your source code on their laptop. They probably also have internal documents regarding design, product management, etc. Many of them probably use a cloud backup service like Mozy/Dropbox etc. I don't think Github is the weakest link in this chain.
That aside, source code is typically far from your most valuable asset, especially if you're a SaaS offering like many startups. What could a competitor do with your code, absent your people and your branding? Even if it were, Github would probably be the least of your security concerns.
We're a startup and we house all of our code on Github in private organization repositories.
That aside, source code is typically far from your most valuable asset, especially if you're a SaaS offering like many startups. What could a competitor do with your code, absent your people and your branding? Even if it were, Github would probably be the least of your security concerns.
We're a startup and we house all of our code on Github in private organization repositories.
Ben Newman, engineer at Quora
Votes by Eunji Choi, Kartik Ayyar, Erbil Karaman, Amit Chaudhary, and 55 more.
Quora does.
Kyle Bragger, Founder of Forrst
Votes by Eunji Choi, William Pietri, Bjarte Minde, Eric Marden, and 12 more.
Yes, I use Github for all projects, both open and closed source. Their infrastructure isn't something I can easily duplicate, and it's nice knowing my code is safe "just in case" (especially when I might be the only developer on the project, hence no other checkouts of the repo).
Ian Peters-Campbell, I've worked at startups
Votes by J.C. Hewitt, Nick Sivo, Kenneth Reitz, Uri Schonfeld, and 4 more.
Loopt uses GitHub for a number (but not all) of our projects. We switched over after the inimitable Scott Chacon promised everyone lap dances. He hasn't delivered yet, but GitHub's working great.
Kevin Fitzpatrick, Developer & Consultant at Pivotal Labs
Votes by Danny Burkes, Uri Schonfeld, Ozgun Ataman, Robb Shecter, and 3 more.
90% of our clients at Pivotal Labs use Github for their source control. I wouldn't recommend anything else.
Edward Ocampo-Gooding, Talent Acquisition, Shopify / Co-founder, Open Data Ottawa
Votes by Uri Schonfeld, Don Marti, Ozgun Ataman, Robb Shecter, and 4 more.
Shopify’s core codebase as well as its subprojects all lie in the warm, fuzzy embrace known as Github.
Hiroshige Umino, Co-Founder, CEO, Developer of Increments
Votes by Takehiro Adachi, Haruna Nishiwaki, and Thomas Foster.
Qiita (a startup in Japan) does. We heavily use pull requests and they're awesome.
Grzegorz Kochan, Chief of Product and Technology
Vote by Thomas Foster.
AdTaily does. I think startups wouldn't make much progress without hosted services like github. Hosting everything from source code, through email, to documents by ourself would consume much of our time and money so important especially at the very beginning.
Eric Savina, rKruiter.com, 500Assets.com - Founder & CEO
Vote by Thomas Foster.
We do. With a team scattered across Asia and Europe, using Gihtub to host our project do make sense. And I don’t see how it would be possible to be as efficient without this tool! Now, regarding the issue of confidentiality, I don’t see any problem.
As stated by Joseph Ruscio, the code is not the only component that makes a startup. What about the months spent on SEO, marketing, recruiting, financing?
As stated by Joseph Ruscio, the code is not the only component that makes a startup. What about the months spent on SEO, marketing, recruiting, financing?
Rick Waldron, The power of Git compells me.
Vote by Thomas Foster.
One of our clients is using a private Github repo. They did this at our recommendation, which was a first for us.
Edit: Yes, the company is a startup.
Edit: Yes, the company is a startup.
Richard Fawal, Communicator, entreprenuer, skeptic. Deputy VP of Comm, Brookings.
Vote by Thomas Foster.
WatchParty does.
Sam Newnam, VP Operations, ERPEngine, Inc
Vote by Thomas Foster.
Our entire code base for our new startup is stored in Github
Terry Wang, Linux, DevOps, Middleware Engineer
If I started a startup, I would set up something like GitLab and host the code within the firewall. GitLab is easy to setup, 15 mins up and running.
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