Sourcegraph went dark

Sourcegraph CEO here. We made our main internal codebase (for our code search product) private. We did this to focus. It added a lot of extra work and risk to have stuff be open source and public. We gotta stay focused on building a great code search/intelligence product for our customers.

That's what ultimately lets us still do plenty of things for devs and the OSS community:

(1) Our super popular public code search is at https://sourcegraph.com/search, which is the same product customers use internally on their own codebases. We spend millions of dollars annually on this public instance with almost 1M OSS repositories to help out everyone using OSS (and we love when they like it so much they bring it into their company :-).

(2) We also have still have a ton of open-source code, like https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/sourcegraph/cody (our code AI tool).

BTW, if any founders out there are wondering whether they should make their own code open-source or public, happy to chat! Email in profile. I think it could make sense for a lot of companies, but more so for infrastructure products or client tools, not so much for full server-side end-user applications.

I hope code search will one day be offered at a lower price, so small/medium sized companies can use the product. I'll never be able to convince someone to buy it when it's 3 or more time as expensive source code hosting, and would in many cases be most expensive SaaS product per developer seat that the company uses. But it's a great product.

$9 to $20 per seat seems pretty average in the grand scheme of SaaS price modelling. I don't work in software development, but IT however.