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Self hosting is also way faster than gitlab from what I remember", "context": "", "use_case": "production git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}, {"id": 789450512, "item_id": 49340657, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49340657", "by": "Grombobulous", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Bitbucket seems like it\u2019s been neglected the exact right amount for it to be a pretty decent choice.", "excerpt": "It\u2019s interesting how under the radar Bitbucket is these days. I use it at work alongside GitHub (patchwork of merged companies). There are random little things I like about it better than GitHub, especially in an enterprise setting. And it has never gone down in my entire tenure at this company, while GitHub is like a weekly outage nightmare these days. 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I used it back in the day when they were the only ones who offered free private repos. Ahead of their time. GH beat them on UI/UX and the PR workflow I think. Really nothing more than having a better ~$120k Product Designer working there. Kinda funny what actually makes people stick with 1 choice over another. Very often it\u2019s just having better UI/UX, or offering something usefu", "context": "", "use_case": "free private repos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}]}, {"label": "Free private repos", "summary": "It was chosen early on because it offered free private repos when GitHub did not.", "quotes": [{"id": 789363344, "item_id": 49335209, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49335209", "by": "emeraldlinex", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Bitbucket was the perfect alternative.", "excerpt": "Bitbucket was the perfect alternative. I used it back in the day when they were the only ones who offered free private repos. 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I used it back in the day when they were the only ones who offered free private repos. Ahead of their time. GH beat them on UI/UX and the PR workflow I think. Really nothing more than having a better ~$120k Product Designer working there. Kinda funny what actually makes people stick with 1 choice over another. Very often it\u2019s just having better UI/UX, or offering something usefu", "context": "", "use_case": "free private repos", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}, {"id": 769622081, "item_id": 48101380, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101380", "by": "dvduval", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I recently switched everything from bitbucket to GitHub", "excerpt": "I recently switched everything from bitbucket to GitHub mostly just because GitHub is more integrated with the AI tools I use. I feel like they\u2019re probably still pretty big in Europe, but they\u2019re losing in some markets more than before.", "context": "", "use_case": "code hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values"}, {"id": 767153024, "item_id": 47947064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947064", "by": "physicsguy", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We used bitbucket for years in our academic research group because GH didn't allow private repos.", "excerpt": "We used bitbucket for years in our academic research group because GH didn't allow private repos. 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Self hosting is also way faster than gitlab from what I remember", "context": "", "use_case": "production git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}, {"id": 789328496, "item_id": 49333031, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333031", "by": "lluisantoni", "date": "2026-08-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I also used bitbucket in the past and found it very easy to use", "excerpt": "Not sure if someone mentioned it already but I also used bitbucket in the past and found it very easy to use with a similar offering as github.", "context": "", "use_case": "git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"}, {"id": 769622081, "item_id": 48101380, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48101380", "by": "dvduval", "date": "2026-05-11", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I recently switched everything from bitbucket to GitHub", "excerpt": "I recently switched everything from bitbucket to GitHub mostly just because GitHub is more integrated with the AI tools I use. I feel like they\u2019re probably still pretty big in Europe, but they\u2019re losing in some markets more than before.", "context": "", "use_case": "code hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "GitLab Announces Workforce Reduction and End of Their CREDIT Values"}, {"id": 767153024, "item_id": 47947064, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947064", "by": "physicsguy", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We used bitbucket for years in our academic research group because GH didn't allow private repos.", "excerpt": "We used bitbucket for years in our academic research group because GH didn't allow private repos. But otherwise it was better to use, so when they allowed that, we made the switch.", "context": "academic research group", "use_case": "private repo hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Before GitHub"}, {"id": 767047392, "item_id": 47940462, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940462", "by": "steve_adams_86", "date": "2026-04-28", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used to use bitbucket a ton back then. I loved it.", "excerpt": "I was late to the party: 457,207 Created at 2010-10-27T23:42:22Z. 16 years! What a wild ride. I used to use bitbucket a ton back then. I loved it. https://api.github.com/users/steveadams", "context": "", "use_case": "code hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"}, {"id": 743074816, "item_id": 46442176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46442176", "by": "gethly", "date": "2025-12-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "bitbucket for git hosting", "excerpt": "bitbucket for git hosting trello for ideas and tasks jetbrains ide(i hate the company and their pricing model but I like the tool) filezilla for sftp 1remote for multi-window ssh keepass for secrets Go for programming Quasar for web front-end git bash for windows shell heidisql for db ui notepad++/vs codium/zed for simple editing", "context": "", "use_case": "git hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?"}]}