GitPrime is a great exemplar of a whole <i>class</i> of companies that are waiting to get built: domain-specific business intelligence (BI) tools. And it’s gotten radically easier to build something like GitPrime even in the last year. You can use an automated data pipeline like Fivetran (my company) to centralize all your users data in a single multi-tenant Snowflake data warehouse, and then build your analytics on top of that foundation. Finally, you can sell direct access to the curated data via data sharing as an enterprise feature.<p>It’s a highly repeatable pattern. There should be a GitPrime for every industry.
Not a fan of git prime. It's built for micro managers, measures mostly meaningless metrics.<p>Encourages frequent small commits with low "churn". Trivial to game if you write a script to split your commits and artifically remove "churn" by making sure you don't touch your changes more than once. Also penalizes you for high "impact" commits. Adding a bunch of docs, renaming packages, or even running auto format penalizes you in metrics.<p>It's completely blind to the language. Doesn't understand the code one bit. Doesn't tell you anything about code quality or if your "rockstar" only writes so much code because he copy pasted everything. Not kidding, almost all the code our "top coder", per git prime, wrote had to be redone after he got canned. He was copy pasting trash everywhere.<p>I'm not against metrics but what it measures largely isn't meaningful. Ex. It's well known that lines of code across different languages are not equivalent.
Why would Pluralsight, a training company, be interested in this. At $170 Million?<p>Not sure why they thought it was a purchase that helped them in their mission.
I tried GitPrime and thought it was extremely well done. If you ignore the obvious use case of management using it for bean-counting, if you work with 10, 25, 50+ developers it really reveals some enlightening patterns.<p>It is fairly expensive, however. Starts at around $10k/year which can make it a tough budgetary sell.<p>I wonder if they'll price it in with Pluralsight as a package or keep it independant.
Congrats to the GitPrime team.<p>While the acquisition price is public, would love to learn more about revenue or # of customers. They must have had some serious revenue/traction to be bought for $170M.
170M for what can essentially be done with <a href="https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tj/git-extras/blob/master/Commands.md</a>?<p>Wow