{"slug": "stash", "name": "Stash", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 3.327, "rising": 1.67, "first": "2026-01-06", "latest": "2026-10-16", "why": "looks like I can finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 2, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "looks like I can finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "staunchapps.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://staunchapps.com/stash", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Stash"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801839072, "item_id": 50114942, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114942", "by": "wisidisi", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I recommend stashapp.", "excerpt": "Obviously the instance is to hide away from wife, kids and rest of the family. 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It was fast, self hosted, and full of features, especially useful around quality gates and build on PRs. Then it was decided we should go for best of suite instead of breed and we went to azure devops. It is slow as molasses, issues are more project management oriented instead of coding, quality gates are virtually non existent and builds ", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Like GitLab"}, {"id": 744268258, "item_id": 46516766, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46516766", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-01-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "looks like I can finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project.", "excerpt": "I love Apple Notes, but I also love writing in vim; looks like I can finally reconcile those two things thanks to your project. 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