[pritianka]

This article by Frederic over at Techcrunch has an interview with Sid, our CEO at GitLab. It should answer a lot of people's questions in the comments below. https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/19/gitlab-raises-100m/

[catwell]

> As Sijbrandij stressed, while most people still look at GitLab as a GitHub and Bitbucket competitor [...] GitLab wants to be far more than that. It now offers products in nine categories

So basically, instead of being a GitHub competitor, it is now an Atlassian competitor.

[sytse]

Atlassian is indeed broader then just BitBucket and a better comparison. GitLab does a broader offering than Atlassian by including things like packaging, monitoring, and security. And GitLab is a single application instead of a suite of tools with different data models.

[jtwaleson]

The offering in most categories is already good enough (for our little startup in Amsterdam), and we're still on the free tier! We only have to use a single integrated SaaS offering which fits almost all of our needs. The CI/CD is far beyond "good enough": it is fantastic, especially with runners on EC2 auto-scaling. Congrats on closing this round Sytse!

[sytse]

Thank you very much. Glad to hear it is working well for you.