Try GitHub Alternatives

Git != GitHub.

Often, we think they're the same thing, but they're not -- GitHub is a platform that's built on git (with a bunch of other things on top of it: issues, projects, wiki, Actions, you name it).

GitHub is awesome. But:

a) Vendor lock-in is never a good thing. What if it stops being free? What if outages (already pretty bad in 2026) become more common?

b) Remember we spoke about improving technical breadth (see Tip 132)? It applies here! And I believe where your code lives is important enough that I'm dedicating a whole tip to it.

So, I'm not asking you to move from GitHub (yet) -- keep your public profile where recruiters look (see Tip 8). But you should know that alternatives exist, and you should play with them (see Tip 224).

I recommend you try these:

1. GitLab: the closest like-for-like replacement -- check it out and see what's different.
2. Bitbucket: can be your gateway to the world of Jira and Confluence (the Atlassian ecosystem, popular in the industry).
3. Codeberg: the non-profit platform, popular with people who want out of Microsoft's orbit.
4. And as a bonus, Cursor Origin: the newest thing out there, for agent-centric code hosting.

Try them all out. Maybe you'll love one of them and it'll stick. Or maybe you'll move back to GitHub. Regardless, the most important thing will happen -- you'll know more than you did before.