Sourcegraph went dark

(eric-fritz.com)

424 points kaycebasques | 1 comments | 20 Aug 24 03:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source

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iddan ◴[20 Aug 24 09:39 UTC] No.41298398[source]▶

I wonder from all the people commenting here how much they relied on Source Graph, and how many actually paid for it. Running an open-source company is hard, just like running any company is. Sometimes you understand there are things you just can't give out for free, and that's part of maturing as a company.

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CAP_NET_ADMIN ◴[20 Aug 24 11:24 UTC] No.41298952[source]▶

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My company looked into paying Sourcegraph many times in the past, but they were prohibtively expensive every time we checked.

It's 49 USD per user per month for Code Search, like what the hell man? It's more than twice as expensive as Github Enterprise. Almost twice the cost of Gitlab Premium.

At some point it was 100USD per month per dev, I also remember it being "Starts from 5k USD per year", you can find some quotes for that in old submissions regarding Sourcegraph going open, closed, open and closed again.

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1. kstrauser ◴[20 Aug 24 17:28 UTC] No.41302041[source]▶

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That's so often the case. I was recently looking at supply chain security / SBOM software. "Coincidentally", 3 different vendors with 3 very different products quoted us the exact same annual price for the features we wanted, and that price was on the order of magnitude of "hire someone to do this manually full-time".

There are IMO too many companies that have no tier between Free and Enterprise. I understand the desire to focus on a small number of whales, but can't help feeling like that's leaving money on the table from all the smaller companies who'd be willing to pay something in the middle.

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