Simple Git hosting: less surface, faster work
GitHub has Copilot, Codespaces, Marketplace, Projects, Wikis, Discussions, Sponsors, profile READMEs, security scanning, AI code review, and a social feed. Most teams use repos, CI, issues, and a container registry.
Codebahn ships the parts you touch every week and leaves out the rest on purpose.
GitHub is complex by design
GitHub serves 180 million developers. The product reflects that: dozens of tabs, a marketplace of unvetted integrations, AI features reshaping the UI around Copilot, and a pricing model that charges per seat for access to all of it.
GitLab is a DevOps platform with 60+ feature categories. If your team is 5 to 15 people, you are paying for an aircraft carrier to cross a lake.
Most teams use a fraction of what their forge offers. The rest is surface you wade through, settings you never open, and tabs you close on reflex.
Codebahn does what you use
Repos, builds, issues, pull requests, container registry, releases. Three interfaces: browser, terminal, AI agent. That is the product.
Less surface means easy to use, fast, and secure.
What we chose not to build
Each of these is a real need. None of them is ours.
- No project boards
- Use Linear, Shortcut, or a spreadsheet
- No wiki
- Use Notion, Confluence, or a docs site
- No built-in security scanner
- Use Snyk, Trivy, or your CI pipeline
- No Copilot or AI code generation
- Use Claude Code, Cursor, or whatever you prefer
- No cloud IDE
- Use your own editor
- No marketplace
- We ship webhooks and a curated integration surface: Slack, Discord, Element, Mattermost
- No social feed
- No profile READMEs, no Sponsors, no Discussions, no GitHub Pages, and more
Every feature request gets one question: does this make the product harder to explain in one sentence? The answer is usually yes. So we do not add it.
Why less is better
Fewer features means less to learn, nothing slowing you down, and less that can break or be exploited. The people who choose Codebahn have already decided what they do not need.