Time is Ripe for Github Disruption
In 2010, my friend advised me to create a Github account for my side projects. At that time, I had nothing going on commercially. I was employed in a Fortune 500 company. I had some online tutorials with code samples to showcase my skills.
By 2009, Github was already boasting 100000+ users. But I ended up creating my Github very late in 2014 when I knew I couldn’t stay relevant as a senior developer in the market without it.
I don’t know why, but I never saw much value in making my best creations available to the world just for the sake of a few employers.
Today, Github is rich. Acquired by Microsoft for $7.5B, it has a success story every developer envies. And I am a satisfied user too, for it allows unlimited private repos with the blessings of its new master.
But sometimes I am still puzzled what were the real reasons I avoided being a regular Github user for a long time. True, I did not have a huge collaboration with my freelance client teams. When I had, it was done using Bitbucket.
Github sold private repos, yet it thrived on amazing revenue growth (300%+ during 2012).
Where Github can be beaten?
With the over-flooding of free cloud space, Github free unlimited private repos are a boon today for many.
