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GitHub

A hosting service for Git repositories: it stores a team's source code with its full change history, and adds code review (pull requests), issue tracking and automated builds.

What GitHub is

Written from its maker's own pages, read on 13 October 2026.

GitHub is a platform for building software, made by GitHub Inc. It is based on Git, an open-source version control system that tracks changes to files: each developer works on a copy of a project, records a history of changes and merges the work with the changes of others. GitHub hosts these projects, called repositories, in the cloud and adds tools for planning and teamwork. Its about page counts more than 225 million developers and 800 million repositories.

Developers push their commits to a repository on GitHub. A pull request proposes a change, and reviewers discuss it before it is merged. Issues and Projects track tasks. GitHub Actions runs CI/CD workflows (continuous integration and delivery: automatic builds, tests and deployments) for each change. Webhooks send an HTTP request to an outside server when an event happens, such as a push, so that the server can deploy the new code. GitHub Copilot, an AI assistant, writes and reviews code, and Codespaces starts a development environment in the cloud.

GitHub is a hosted service. A free plan includes unlimited public and private repositories; paid plans are charged per user each month.

Made by: GitHub Inc.
Price: From US$4 a month for each user on the Team plan (read 13 October 2026)
Free plan: yes, limited

Who uses it, and for what

One row per story. The grade is for the claim that the business uses this tool, not for its revenue.

Story	What it does there	When	Grade	Source
Postiz	Hosts the open-source code; stars, trending lists and issues bring developers and feedback.		B	GitHub repository gitroomhq/postiz-app, metadata read 12 October 2026
CreativeClaw	Hosts the public repository of the plugin and its skills, which also works as the plugin marketplace source.		B	GitHub repository CreativeClawCo/creative-claw-marketplace: record and commit history
ChatSEO	Holds the code; TrustMRR reads its activity, 2,667 contributions in the last year.		B	TrustMRR: ChatSEO, verified revenue profile, synced 14 October 2026
Screenshot to Code	Hosts the open-source repository, 80,363 stars by October 2026, which the founder says drives steady organic traffic to the paid version.	since November 2023	B	GitHub API: repository abi/screenshot-to-code, read 14 October 2026
Questgen and Supermeme.ai	Hosts the open-source Questgen library, whose README sends readers to the hosted product at questgen.ai.	since August 2020	B	GitHub: ramsrigouthamg/Questgen.ai, question generation library
Notis	Holds the code; TrustMRR reads 2,752 contributions in the last year from it.		B	TrustMRR, notis.ai markdown profile, data as of 15 October 2026
AIDesigner	Holds the source code of the MCP installer package, according to the package's npm record.		B	npm registry record for @aidesigner/agent-skills
invrs.io	Hosts the 12 public repositories and the company's only self-description; the press and the newsletter read the business from there.		B	MacRumors, 25 February 2026: EU Reveals Apple Made a Tiny Acquisition Last Year
Runbear	Hosts the company's open-source releases (LangBear, awesome-runbook) and is linked from the home page. organization runbear-io	since 2023	B	Runbear home page, read 23 October 2026
CodeGuide	Hosts the public starter-kit repositories that CodeGuide offers to its users.		B	CodeGuide home page and pricing, read 15 October 2026
Copilot for Obsidian	Hosts the open-source code (AGPL-3.0) and collects sponsorships for the project. public repository and GitHub Sponsors	since 2023	B	GitHub repository logancyang/obsidian-copilot, read 27 October 2026
Clarity AI	Hosts the open-source upscaler that points users to the paid app; 5.2 thousand stars by October 2026.	since March 2024	B	GitHub: philz1337x/clarity-upscaler, read 27 October 2026
TextWork	Hosts the code repository whose contribution counts TrustMRR shows.		B	TrustMRR profile of Textwork, as read on 27 October 2026
Photo AI	Stores the code; each push triggers a webhook that deploys to the production server within seconds.		C	Lex Fridman Podcast #440, August 2024: Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life, transcript
DocsBot AI	Its Dependabot service watches the code dependencies for security problems. Dependabot		C	Aaron Edwards' blog, 3 October 2025: Finally SOC 2 Certified as a Solo Founder
Polsia	Stores the code of each customer company; the engineering agent pushes its commits there and the web server deploys them. a repository for each customer company		C	Mixergy, 2 March 2026, interview by Andrew Warner: This AI generates $689K
Superpower ChatGPT	Holds the code. The early versions were public from April 2023, so that users could read the code before installing.	since April 2023	C	Founder Club, 23 May 2023: AI Chrome extension with 80,000 downloads and $1000 MRR
LLM Gateway	Holds the public AGPLv3 repository where the co-founders and outside contributors develop the code.		C	LLM Gateway: About page
Adspirer	Hosts the public MIT-licensed repository with the plugins and skills for Claude Code and Cursor.		C	Adspirer llms.txt file
Imagined with AI	Code hosting, listed in the founder's tool stack on Starter Story.		C	Starter Story, 6 March 2024: How We Expanded Our AI Image Generator Tools And Make $4.5K Per Month
AgentaOS	Hosts the Apache-2.0 repository with the SDK, CLI, MCP server and Claude Code plugin.	since March 2026	C	Wayback copy of the AgentaOS blog, 3 March 2026: Introducing AgentaOS, The Financial OS for the Agent Economy, by Panche Isajeski
Inbox Zero	Hosts the public code; the repository's star count is the founder's main open-source distribution channel.		C	Inbox Zero blog, 22 January 2024: How my open source SaaS hit first on Product Hunt
MausBot	Hosts the open-source code and the public releases.		C	MausBot blog, 17 August 2026, updated 3 October 2026: Open source Grok Bot: MausBot, the free alternative
Advanced GSC MCP	Hosts the free open-source server whose users led to the paid hosted version.	since 2025	C	About Advanced GSC
Headroom	Hosts the public desktop code and the release downloads for all three platforms.		C	Headroom home page (extraheadroom.com), read 25 October 2026
BridgeMind	Hosts the open-source BridgeClip code.		C	BridgeClip home page, read 25 October 2026
Tapesearch	Tracks the development issues of the Tapesearch code, according to the site's llms.txt file.		C	A public page outside the story's source list
Jetwriter AI	Hosts the code.		C	Hacker News job post by jerrygoyal, 2 August 2024: ChatGPT Writer, React Dev
AgentKit (formerly ClaudeKit)	Delivered the kits to early buyers through repository invitations, now kept for legacy migration and support.		C	AgentKit privacy policy, read 25 October 2026
Chariot	Hosts the company's public code: a Node.js library for the 2023 Chariot API.	since 2023	C	GitHub organization chariotai
Ferndesk	Hosts the source code and runs the tests.		C	Ferndesk Privacy Policy, effective 5 October 2026, last updated 12 October 2026
Voibe	Holds the source code in private repositories.		C	Voibe Security page
ColorBliss	Hosts the code that Laravel Forge deploys.		C	Ben Robertson: Uses, the tools behind ColorBliss, read 27 October 2026
Synta	Hosts the open-source rules and prompts repository that teaches AI coding agents to use Synta MCP.		C	n8n Community, 9 April 2026: I Built an n8n MCP Server that makes Claude, OpenClaw and Cursor and an end-to-end n8n specialist
Genlook	Hosts the code of Scribe, the open-source CMS that runs the Genlook website.		C	Scribe: the git-based CMS for multilingual MDX sites (made by Genlook)
TranslateMom	Public repository for the documentation, the issue tracker and the roadmap; the core code is closed.		C	GitHub: montagao/translatemom, README

Grade A: the tool's maker or a payment processor confirms the use. Grade B: an independent report, or the tool is visible in public code. Grade C: the founder or the company says so.

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