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I use a Netlify function to do extremely simple auth and then open an issue on Github, which triggers a CI action, which appends to a .jsonl file in the repo (different branch), which triggers a Netlify build, which then serves the new jsonl file. (If the repo were public, this wouldn't even have to trigger a rebuild of the webs", "context": "project with fewer than 10 users", "use_case": "low-volume database", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How do you host your vibe coded tools/sites?"}, {"id": 774659217, "item_id": 48416201, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416201", "by": "dualvariable", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "when we switched to GH issues, we largely abandoned JIRA", "excerpt": "This is the way we did it when we used JIRA. For GH issues you can always navigate back to the PR discussion (which should have linked issues and other pointers in it) from the commit. Of course when we switched to GH issues, we largely abandoned JIRA and years later the instance got turned off and deleted. Now all those JIRA tags are entirely useless. IMO that actually argues for tight coupling between your issue tr", "context": "", "use_case": "issue tracking", "switched_from": "Jira", "story": "Stop Using Conventional Commits"}, {"id": 757681761, "item_id": 47355110, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47355110", "by": "cheema33", "date": "2026-03-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "we switched to GitHub issues and kicked Jira to the curb. This saved money and also a lot of hassle", "excerpt": "What do people use Atlassian for these days? Back in the day we used Jira a lot. But we also had GitHub accounts. The integration of the two wasn't great so we switched to GitHub issues and kicked Jira to the curb. This saved money and also a lot of hassle in trying to keep the two in sync. I am wondering if many others went a similar route. 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