A few months ago I went looking for a home for my private code with three simple requirements: hosted (I want to push code, not babysit a server), structurally sound, and sovereign — actually governed by European law, not just parked in the "EU region" of an American cloud.
I found almost nothing.
There are good options if you're publishing open source. But for private code — client work, company code, the things you're contractually not allowed to hand to just anyone — the realistic options came down to two: stay on GitHub and accept the trade-offs, or self-host.
I've spent my career on both sides of that choice: sysadmin and network admin, then backend developer, DevOps specialist, and software architect. I know exactly what it takes to run a forge properly — the updates, the backups, the email deliverability, the monitoring — and I knew I could build the service I was looking for.
So I did. It's called gitbuild.dev, and it's live today.
