Gitential co-founder Zoltán Peresztegi describes the competitive landscape in the developer productivity space.
Insight
Large developer teams still resist storing source code in the cloud
“The more developers you have, usually the less likely you are to be comfortable with, you know, sharing your source code and, you know, keeping it in the cloud is, I was surprised actually to learn this, but it's still not a common practice.”
Insight
Developer analytics tools only make sense for teams over 20 engineers
“Usually where we start to make sense is like, I would say, 20 to 30 developers is the minimum team size where, where you start to make sense. And the more you're outsourcing and the more distributed your teams are you know, that means there's less like person …”
Opinion
No productivity tool has found the definitive metric for developer velocity
“I don't think any of the players in this market have like landed it, the final metrics to measure development velocity or development productivity by.”
Opinion
Peresztegi names GitPrime as Gitential's major competitor in developer analytics
“Well, the one player who is, you know, who has been there before us and, you know, who has, who is probably a little bit ahead of us is, is called Git Prime. So that the, they are our major competitors, I would say.”
Disclosure
Gitential is transitioning from pure SaaS to an on-premise model
“Right now we're kind of a pure SAS play. But the more we understand about the market, actually, the more we see that, you know, there is a serious need for an on-prem version. So, you know, we're actually moving towards that direction”
Disclosure
Gitential is raising a $1M pre-seed round to accelerate growth
“We're raising just under a million actually to, you know, make it possible for us to really go faster in the next year or so, a little bit over a year.”