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Best GitHub Alternatives for Indie Hackers in 2026 (Honest Picks)

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Originally published at devtoolpicks.com GitHub had a rough April 2026. Uptime dropped to around 86%. The Merge Queue silently unmerged 292 pull requests across 658 repos. A botnet took down GitHub Search for hours. And then a critical remote code execution vulnerability surfaced where git push could execute code on GitHub servers. Mitchell Hashimoto, creator of Vagrant and Terraform, packed up his 50,000-star project Ghostty and left GitHub after 18 years. He kept a journal for a month and put an X next to every day a GitHub outage blocked his work. Almost every day got an X. His reason was simple: "I want to ship software, and it doesn't want me to ship software." GitHub's CTO admitted in writing that AI agents are hammering the platform's infrastructure. Agentic development workflows from tools like Cursor and Codex have accelerated sharply since 2025, creating compute demands the platform wasn't designed to handle.…

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