Ahh good question…

Here's the timeline if you're interested.

3 years ago we started building a direct competitor to GitHub with the theory that you need to build code storage, code review and CI to truly compete.

We spent about a year prototyping this all out, raised some money, and then started building this for real [tm].

Code storage felt like a HUGE moat for GitHub. Most of our competitors in the code review space:

- graphite - linear - (now cognition) - etc

All built directly on GitHub's apis – but we wanted to go down to the metal (something wrong with us).

A year and half into doing this, a few folks reached out and asked how we were scaling git… i waved my hands around a bunch and explained how hard of a distributed systems problem scaling git was… explained git three-phase commits, etc.

Fast forward a few more months, and we started standing up single tenant clusters of our infra for a few different codegen companies that also needed storage solutions.

And now here we are :)