WHY GITHUB ACTUALLY WON

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This article, written by one of GitHub's cofounders, discusses the reasoning behind the rise and dominance of the platform. GitHub started at the right time and it had good taste. It started when distributed open source version control tools were starting to get useful, solid, and adopted and there was nobody around to host them. Its competitors couldn't compete with a developer tools company whose cofounders were all product-focused open source software developers that cared about the developer experience. Everyone else was trying to build what they thought they could sell to advertisers or CTOs.