<story><title>Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/10/09/introducing-the-redesigned-bitbucket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn&apos;t interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn&apos;t aged a day (that&apos;s not really fair, but it feels like it).&lt;p&gt;I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That&apos;s fine, 2nd place makes a lot of money too (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hess</author><text>The free private repos are a lifesaver.  They also just released a refer a friend program like dropbox.  You can get up to 8 users for free. - &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbucket-for-free-users/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbu...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing the Redesigned Bitbucket</title><url>http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/10/09/introducing-the-redesigned-bitbucket/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>notatoad</author><text>Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.</text></item><item><author>bryanh</author><text>For a while I was a bit worried that GitHub had just ran away with the prize and no one else was bothering. It is pretty obvious that Google isn&apos;t interested in improving Google Code and that Sourceforge hasn&apos;t aged a day (that&apos;s not really fair, but it feels like it).&lt;p&gt;I think there is still a chance for BitBucket to make a splash, but I think its going to be hard to win anymore. That&apos;s fine, 2nd place makes a lot of money too (not counting places 1-10 for enterprise source control, which basically print money, and of which GitHub is chasing too).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitcartel</author><text>I like Bitbucket because they support both Mercurial and Git.  They also acquired SourceTree (probably the best version control app on the Mac), employed the main developer and made the app free.</text></comment>