GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

by bkbleikamp • 15 years ago

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pestaa2• 15 years ago

I'm very happy for their success, I really see GitHub as one of the most rapidly evolving services; my only wish is for BitBucket to receive the same care.

xorglorb• 15 years ago

They provide a great service, and I use them all the time, but I don't like how their pricing scheme works for freelancers. You end up with a million small private repositories, and BitBucket has much more reasonable options.

KVFinn• 15 years ago

Yeah, it's ridiculous. I have enough repos that I'd need the Platinum 200 dollar a month plan.

All the repos are small and most are updated once or twice a year -- but the pricing is the same as if I had a whole team of people pushing to github every day.

joelhaasnoot• 15 years ago

And the team plans offer very little value for money vs the normal plans...

It'd be great if you could trade diskspace for # of repositories or something like that.

icebraining2• 15 years ago

But what's the point of having those on Github anyway? GH is great for teams or for sharing your code with 'the community', but I don't see what it buys you for private, single developer projects over a directory in your drive(s).

eliben2• 15 years ago

Out of curiosity, why don't you keep several repos in a single repo as sub-directories? AFAICT, this should work quite well if the work done on those directories is unrelated to other work. Yes, there will be more revisions but merges shouldn't be more difficult because work is done on different parts.

ergo14• 15 years ago

Then use bitbucket, recently after they updated the website its actually really good service

marketer• 15 years ago

I recently switched to Unfuddle for private repos. It's designed for small teams and freelancers.

simonbrown• 15 years ago

Or RepositoryHosting.

ElliotH• 15 years ago

BitBucket is also very nice for students, their deal gives you unlimited private repos among other things, far more generous than GitHub.

percent204• 15 years ago

Another new service on the scene, providing cheap unlimited git hosting repositories, is sourcehold.com specifically to help solve this problem.

Full Disclosure: I am writing it, and it is still in beta.

getsat• 15 years ago

Unlimited? You may want to rethink your business model.

jwallaceparker2• 15 years ago

How much are you going to charge?

0x122• 15 years ago

I suspect one of the reasons why github just hit a million users is that people use more than one account to get around that limitation.

kneath2• 15 years ago

What limitation does this get you around? Private repositories do cost more if you use more private repos, but creating another account doesn't get you anything. Look at our plans — it would actually cost more to use multiple accounts to publish many private repos.

insanecanadian• 15 years ago

Disclaimer: I haven't used these company before, but they do seem like an okay option: https://codeplane.com/

jwallaceparker2• 15 years ago

I just signed up for them earlier today, actually. It seems simple so far. Nice looking interface.

Less features than GitHub (no file browser, no web interface that shows commits) but hopefully they will address that.

slig• 15 years ago

RepositoryHosting.com

I've been there for years and I couldn't be happier. The only downtime was when AWS went down for everyone.

bad_user2• 15 years ago

I just have my own Github repository on an EC2 instance that I rent. I can have how many repositories I want with GB of data, whatever for something like $12 per month.

Suan• 15 years ago

http://projectlocker.com/ provides free private git repositories. Sure, their GUI is nowhere close to Github's, but you get what you pay for.

rs• 15 years ago

Have a look at http://xp-dev.com which does not have any limits on number of projects

(disclaimer: I run it)

bitops• 15 years ago

Well done GitHub! Keep up the good work.

karlzt• 15 years ago

such a coincidence that this happens the day I created a Bitbucket account :)

bprater• 15 years ago

Well deserved. The team has consistently brought the kinds of functionality we need as developers since they launched the service. Kudos guys!

frisco• 15 years ago

How are they measuring users here? Is this all-time-registrations? Or "actives"? Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already. Regardless, awesome!

phillmv2• 15 years ago

>Because if this is registrations, I thought they were a lot bigger already.

No way. How many programmers are there in the first place? I bet you it's <100M, hell <50M.

EDIT: Back of the envelope by other people put it between <12M to <24M http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...

Under that perspective, one could say that Github has captured the attention of 4-8% of everyone capable of understanding the app.

nknight• 15 years ago

And we all know the wildly varying calibre of people with "programmer" or "software engineer" type titles ("Source control? Which key is that?"). I wouldn't be too surprised if it was more like 10% of those capable...

Retric• 15 years ago

I think it depends on how you define programmer. If you are just looking at people who write scrips or excel macro's etc then it might be as high as: 6billion people * 1/3 have computers * 25% of computer users write scrips = 500 million people. Or you could limit it to people who have software developer or programmer etc as part of their job title and then it's probably below 20 million.

PS: Personally, I rather prefer the most inclusive version which includes people who simply train their outlook to auto sort their mail etc. In the early days of computing there was little that separated users from programmers and I like to think we are heading back in that direction. If for no other reason than I like the idea of the maximum number of people learning how to work though problems logically.

kneath2• 15 years ago

Registered user accounts (meaning this does not include Organization accounts). We also purge spammers fairly often, so it should be our best guess as to real people who have registered.

bambax• 15 years ago

When was this reached? I setup an account a few hours ago and have to wonder if I am the millionth user?? ;-)

technoweenie• 15 years ago

It wasn't you, we already contacted the 1 millionth user. Nice try though!

guelo• 15 years ago

Wow, that number almost doesn't seem believable. A million people must be a good chunk of all programmers in the world. This Wikipedia article[1] says there are 612,000 programmers in the US and 522,000 in India. Admittedly old incomplete data but it's easy to see how a million people might be 10-20% of all programmers worldwide. In corporate drone offices I've been in my guess is maybe 10% of programmers have even heard of git.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_demographi...

swlkr• 15 years ago

I was wondering this same thing! I wonder if someone can provide more recent data on how many programmers there are worldwide.

ddbeck• 15 years ago

I imagine there's also a small, but non-trivial number of people on GitHub who wouldn't be readily identified as programmers. For example, I'm acquainted with a civil engineer that's on GitHub so he can contribute to software used with his astronomy hobby.

dasil0033• 15 years ago

also designers. That might be the biggest demographic of "non-programmers" even though the designers on github veer technical.

shabble• 15 years ago

Do you need an account to be able to report issues or watch projects? Interested bystanders and responsible bug-reporting OSS citizens may account for some of that.

I wonder how many of those accounts have active repos of their own?

Zev• 15 years ago

I would wonder how many of those accounts have pushed to a repo recently, not just their own (in cases where people work for a company/on a project that has a GitHub organization).

andrewl-hn• 15 years ago

Yep, that's a valid point. I got my account for more than a year but I use it to report issues and for Gists only.

mrpollo• 15 years ago

I know Project and Account managers that have github accounts, you are probably missing those or similar users in nature

bdunn• 15 years ago

Many of our non-technical clients have Github accounts and are collaborators on our projects - we treat the commit log as our way of reporting status updates.

derwiki• 15 years ago

".. and as a gift to you all, we'll be building side by side diffs!"

(j/k -- congrats to the Github team, you can pry my account from my cold dead hands)

prudhvis• 15 years ago

Github is the best place for Social Coding. Can't tell you how easy it is to manage a Repository being a Release Engineer with Github.

thedjpetersen• 15 years ago

Good work GitHub team! Using github as part of my workflow has greatly helped my efficiency. Their interface makes reviewing code and making comments much easier.

frabcus• 15 years ago

If anyone's interested in their growth curve, this scraper of their search engine using date ranges gives you figures for their number of users every month since they started. https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/github_users_each_year/

jcborro• 15 years ago

How many users does the biggest public SVN repo have?

zoul• 15 years ago

I love GitHub and when our company recently migrated its code to Git, we were much interested in hosting the code on GitHub. I was surprised that they have a repository size limit, or more precisely I was surprised by how low the limit is. They have no hard quota, but they "don't recommend repository size over 1GB". Plans don't make a difference.

We're a small four-people workshop, but our repos are easily several gigabytes in size because of the artworks, source photos and similar stuff. We would probably have squeezed under their limit, but did not want to live under the constant threat of growing out of it.

So, I love GitHub, will continue using it for my public stuff, but I am surprised you can't easily host 10-15 GBs of private code even though you're willing to pay $50 a month for it.

thomasfl• 15 years ago

If you don't like GitHubs pricing model, just download and install Gitorious on your own server. It's open source.

dasil0033• 15 years ago

This made me curious what my user number was. You can see it on your Account page source:

https://skitch.com/e-dasil003/f5nx6/safari

Unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to explore user numbers like going to /users/5603 for example. That is actually the route for DELETEing your account, but it doesn't have a GET redirect or anything.

bad_user2• 15 years ago

GitHub is basically the Facebook of software developers and I think it is eating LinkedIn's launch.

GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users

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