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noahbptoday at 2:09 PM2 repliesview on HN

Because any price at all will immediately cause users to shift to another platform, and GitHub's value is that it is _the_ place to put your code on the internet.


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MisterPeatoday at 4:24 PM

I wonder how much network effects help here.

There's a lot of consumer surplus with the features GitHub offers. I'm sure they can have better pricing tiers to capture the surplus without losing too many users.

aurareturntoday at 2:44 PM

And another platform will suffer the same thing and charge probably even more?