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SourceHut

No-JS-required software forge, 100% free software

provisional — pending verificationAGPL-3.0self-hostable

Arete score

4.8 / 5

Autonomy5

Return4

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

SourceHut is listed in git hosting & ci because it competes on utility: no-js-required software forge, 100% free software. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed AGPL-3.0; pricing: pay-what-committed, public. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: AGPL-3.0
Pricing: Pay-what-committed, public
Funding model: User-funded bootstrapped
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: hard
Replaces: GitHub
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

Publishes annual financial reports

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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