Congrats on the team.<p>I&#x27;m reading the comments on HN and top comments are suggesting competitor products that fix mostly speed and UI concerns.<p>I&#x27;ve been following GitLab since 3 years it was really cool to host my own GitHub ( back then the design was almost identical ), but now it becomes more obvious how important it is to choose a language before you build a web application.<p>I think the ruby part was the only bad thing that they shouldn&#x27;t have copied from GitHub. Also I bet you just can&#x27;t use a web-app as big as gitlab on your own DO 10$ box and don&#x27;t have any problems very soon.<p>If I was part of GitLab team I would definitely put on the table a plan to decentralise the services from their main ruby repository and use something modern micro-service based solution with it&#x27;s top performant language.