Ask HN: Hosted Fossil for small teams – interesting, or wrong call?

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Description

I've been working on a hosted Fossil SCM service for a few months and I genuinely don't know if it's a good idea. The "We need a federation of forges" thread on the front page today made me think it's worth posting. What I'm building: a hosted home for Fossil repos. Same onramp feel as a code host, but each project is a single self-contained SQLite file you can clone, email, or walk away with. The open source omnibus (Django + Postgres + Redis + Caddy + Lites

Discovered

April 29, 2026

Added to Database

April 30, 2026

Notes

[Personal AI / AI Assistant] Discovered via hackernews; 2 AI keyword matches; 1 startup keyword matches

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