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Git hosting that never leaves Europe (pushin.eu)
pjullrich 23 minutes ago [-]
Hi, Peter the Founder of Pushin.eu here. Sorry, the website escaped containment and landed on HN before I had the chance to update the "marketing materials" aka. landing page. So, here are a few points:

*The product is stable, but still in development. That's why some of the core things like pricing, etc. are missing. BUT:*

1. Business Model: Pushin will have subscriptions for individuals and teams. Pricing is not yet decided but it'll be close to GitHub/GitLab pricing.

2. Privacy: In true German fashion, we *don't* want your private data. Pushin doesn't track anything beyond the obvious: email, password hash, username, whatever information you put on your profile.

3. Roadmap: We're currently in Beta, but everything looks good so far. We'll probably go GA beginning of 2027. I'll focus on delivering the core features first and make sure that they are polished and of good quality before moving on to the nice-to-haves.

4. I say "we" but it's really only me (Peter Ullrich, peterullrich.com) and my dog (Bella, Labrador, beige). "We" are not VC funded, but bootstrapping on bare metal Scaleway servers. My wish is for this to become a proper company soon though.

5. Tech-stack: Elixir (Phoenix + LiveView) for most parts, Rust for the Git parts, S3-compatible buckets and Postgres on Scaleway, servers are bare metal Scaleway servers running in Paris.

6. Git implementation: Just like Tangled, I've used Rust and the gitoxide libraries to build a Git implementation that's fully compatible with the canonical Git CLI, but uses S3-compatible buckets as storage instead of keeping the entire repo on disk. I'll write in-depth about this soon, but it's very much what Tangled did, just with a different storage concept.

I gotta be honest that I'm both scared but also excited that Pushin hit HN. I wish we'd be better prepared, but here we are. Many thanks to anyone who is willing to try it out!

potato-peeler 3 minutes ago [-]
> Pushin doesn't track anything beyond the obvious: email, password hash, username, whatever information you put on your profile

This seems poorly worded or genuinely concerning. Why do you want to track my email, username or anything in my profile. What do you do with it? How do you track it?

PeterStuer 4 minutes ago [-]
Thx for the info. Good luck with the project. There is most definitly a market for this, especially after the Codeberg activist takeover.
sevenseacat 14 minutes ago [-]
(sorry I got excited and shared it)
pautasso 7 minutes ago [-]
https://codeberg.org/

also fits the description of "Git hosting that never leaves Europe".

JuniperMesos 3 minutes ago [-]
I wouldn't want to host software, or really any published work, in a legal regime that doesn't have something equivalent to the American first amendment.
Nursie 6 seconds ago [-]
And many people wouldn’t want to host in America because the first amendment doesn’t really protect you from the whims of the US government, which at the moment are pretty fucking random, and the US government gives itself rights to access any/everything hosted by US companies.
hum3hum3 5 minutes ago [-]
I just moved from github to vodeberg then to my own self hosted forgejo on hetzner. I may wait awhile and then try yours.
dvh 6 minutes ago [-]
You shouldn't allow repos without descriptions. Do people really cannot be bothered to write one sentence that describes the repo?
graemep 11 minutes ago [-]
Its specifically based in France. This matters as EU law is less uniform than US law (yes, like differences between states, but a lot more so).

The UI is a lot snappier than Github.

The promise not to train models on the code is not very useful for public repos, and I cannot see anything about private repos.

pjullrich 7 minutes ago [-]
Yes, we can't block models from scraping the public repos and train on them, but *we* won't use your code (neither public nor private) to train models on them. We really only want to host your code and do that well.
Super3000 36 minutes ago [-]
I think this maybe needs some more time, to figure out what the actual plan with this is - if any.

The humour is there: https://pushin.eu/orgs/mctestface/members (Boaty Mac Boat Face ref mentioned)

pjullrich 8 minutes ago [-]
Yes, that's my test organization :)
ramon156 7 minutes ago [-]
great idea, sadly full of vibe-code. I assume it was prompted by copying the style of some existing EU-style Design system.

Idea is promising though, hope it matures into something solid.

JaggerJo 47 minutes ago [-]
I would want to know the pricing before I’d move anything there.

It should cost money - I just want to know how much.

pjullrich 18 minutes ago [-]
It will!

I'll introduce subscriptions soon, we're currently still in invite-only beta, but the subscriptions will be very much like GitHub/GitLabs with individual and team pricing.

azarai 2 hours ago [-]
Nice idea, zero trust signals. Don't even see company details or the folks behind and no legal pages.
pjullrich 21 minutes ago [-]
Yes, sorry this escaped containment before I was able to update the landing page. Since the product is in invite-only beta still, I focused on the UX of the platform instead of the "marketing materials" aka. Landing page
azarai 29 seconds ago [-]
Trust is not "marketing materials". Folks trust that you keep those promises, that their code ist safe. Your product is trust, not the application. Code and application are just the vehicle to deliver that.
sam_lowry_ 44 minutes ago [-]
trilogic 33 minutes ago [-]
Congrats, great project. More info would be appreciated, I.E upload limit in GB for each and in total?
pjullrich 19 minutes ago [-]
Thank you! Sorry about that, this post on HN caught me before it was ready. Upload limits are: 5GB for logs, 5GB for artifacts, 10 GB cache. These limits will probably change once I introduce a paid trier (same limits there, lower limits on the free tier)
saaaaaam 29 minutes ago [-]
>Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked.

And yet the marketing copy is egregious AI slop.

tosti 1 hours ago [-]
Smells vibe coded.
tux3 36 minutes ago [-]
There's a sign of life on the elexir forum: https://elixirforum.com/t/macro-mayhem-004-peter-announces-p...

There's a possibility this was made by a person. Apart from that good luck getting any information behind this.

pjullrich 22 minutes ago [-]
That's true, that's me! My personal website is peterullrich.com
sam_lowry_ 14 minutes ago [-]
So you are switching focus from blockchain-something to EU-something?

Hm.

pjullrich 8 minutes ago [-]
I was never really blockchain-something. It was all the hype when I finished my software engineering masters (around 2017/18), so to understand the technology better I started a Podcast and wrote my master thesis about it. I never used it or worked in it afterwards though and I never thought it'd become more than a scam unfortunately
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