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Git-bug: Distributed, offline-first bug tracker embedded in Git

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  1. michaelmure · · focus · HN ↗
    Hi, author here, nice to see some interest :-)

    FYI, this is my near-term roadmap:

      - have the webui accept external auth (like github oauth) so that it can be a public portal and accept external interactions
  - have the webui expose a git remote endpoint
  - slightly rework identities (and likely root them in did:plc for pubkey distribution, the identity system from bluesky, without being an ATProto thing), which would allow to share identities between repos way more naturally
  - extend to support pull-requests, possibly CI. That would make it a somewhat complete local-first forge that you can also self-host trivially
    Also, while there is some attention ... I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!
    1. sebiw · · focus · HN ↗
      First of all: Huge respect for getting something out the door, looks really useful.

      > I'm considering working on this full time. If you have some advice or opportunities on how I can support myself doing this, let me know!

      You could consider an "enterprise" tier with a special subset of features and guaranteed support. But my experience tells me this will be really hard to substantially monetize, as the customer profile for that solution is probably not spending on software until they really need to (the saying goes: selling to developers is impossible, you need to sell to their boss). Maybe a donation model or a creator-centric thing could work out!

      1. joshmarlow · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah I agree that monetization seems hard here. But one niche that might work - tons of people are using LLMs to build out side projects and keeping tickets in the same repo as the project could be really frictionless for LLMs to reach for without an MCP server.

        Don't sell to developers for their day jobs, but sell to developers for their hobbies.

        1. tristanMatthias · · focus · HN ↗
          To be fair I was also unhappy with current tooling and made my own [0] in a day or so.

          I think this tool would be a hard thing to monetise unfortunately in 2026. It’s just… so easy to make stuff now.

          [0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tristanmatthias&#x2F;tasks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tristanmatthias&#x2F;tasks

      2. namiyama · · focus · HN ↗

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