Have you looked at https://github.com/git-bug/git-bug ?

Yes! git-bug is the closest prior art, I reference it in the README's Prior Art section.

Three key differences:

1. Plain Git primitives — git-bug uses CRDTs with JSON operation logs. git-native-issue uses commits as events, Git trailers for metadata (same format as Signed-off-by), and merge commits for conflict resolution. No custom serialization.

2. Standalone format spec — git-bug's "format" is whatever its Go code produces. git-native-issue ships ISSUE-FORMAT.md, a standalone specification that any tool in any language can implement. The spec is the deliverable, not the CLI.

3. Simplicity — CRDTs are powerful but overkill here. Git already solves distributed conflict resolution with three-way merge. Why rebuild that in userspace?

git-bug validated that storing issues in Git refs works. I built on that lesson with a simpler data model and a spec-first approach.

I remember reading The Twelve-Factor App [1] from the Heroku folks back in the day, and was blown away by how well they understood the problem. Not only that but they had great taste.

I moved things to Render a while back, and then to my own Hetzner server (I built kind of an open source Vercel clone for that reason [2]).

I'm not quite sure any of these platforms are going to be relevant 5 years from now when you can summon your own DevOps AI agent. At the very least it's going to be incredibly difficult to justify the premium on top of AWS.

1: https://www.12factor.net/

2: https://devpu.sh

Awesome. There was a company in China, eDuShi (E都市), doing this for a whole bunch of Chinese cities back in the day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4112874847

Absolute self-promotion: https://github.com/hunvreus/reallysimpledocs

Astro’s starlight docs generator/template is quite nice as well: https://starlight.astro.build/

Mintlify does look pretty, but between that and all the React exploits, I'll stick with good ol' static sites.

Kinda why I built ReallySimpleDocs [1]. Add Pages CMS [2] to it and you're set.

[1]: https://reallysimpledocs.com/

[2]: https://pagescms.org

Appreciated. That's pretty much what I was going for.

The only thing I think is missing is a proper full text search which I'll add later on this week using lunr.js [1]. I just didn't have the time to get it done for this release.

[1]: https://lunrjs.com/

It's pretty much as advertised: a really simple documentation template built with 11ty [1] and Tailwind.

I've been releasing a few projects in the past year: Basecoat [2], Pages CMS [3], and lately /dev/push [4]. Each one of them needed its own documentation.

Sure, I could have used stuff like Mintlify or Docusaurus. But I really wanted something fast, modern, simple, and good-looking. And if possible: no React.

Since it's using Basecoat, you get a shadcn/ui compatible design system, so pretty easy to style.

I'll be rolling it out to all my projects, but maybe some of you find it useful.

[1]: https://11ty.dev

[2]: https://basecoatui.com

[3]: https://pagescms.org

[4]: https://devpu.sh

Fair enough. I actually needed dns-01 for /dev/push [1] so ended up not using it. I still thought it was a pretty cool project.

[1]: https://github.com/hunvreus/devpush

Didn't recognize you without the horse picture.

I love that, I may steal it.