Gitlab makes more money than you think

My concern is that they’re in revenue-extraction mode with prices going up and layoffs, but their regular development seems to have stalled with a ton of issues stagnant in their tracker for years (if Duo was any good, wouldn’t we see increased velocity?). They got rid of the technical reps for customers and now everything is funneled through the sales reps, and there’s a noticeable upsell to Ultimate which is quite a jump in pricing.

All normal for a company with investment, of course, but it seems to have notably cooled the enthusiasm of the technical folks I used to see recommending their products.

The actual title is more relevant: “GitLab sees traction as it competes against GitHub, Atlassian”. GitLab is apparently benefitting from Atlassian killing their on-prem offering.

I heavily advocated for introducing GitLab at our company 5 years ago. We're now stuck with it, and GitLab is increasing the price continually. We started with the $4/month start edition because we needed 1 or 2 features, and now we are looking at $29/month for the same 1 or 2 features. We are seriously looking at ditching GitLab because of this. The price hike is insane. They're destroying their customer base in the long term for short term profits.