Origin by Cursor
The Git forge built for the age of coding agents
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Origin is Cursor's new code hosting platform, built for a world where humans and coding agents work side by side. Create and host Git repos directly in Cursor, browse and search code, open and review pull requests, manage access, and sync with GitHub. Your code now lives next to the agents working on it—with more agent-native features on the way.
PH · launched Aug 19, 2026 · 357 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 226 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +15% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
- Developer Tools
- Artificial Intelligence
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Could you build this?
No Building a full-scale Git forge (like GitHub or GitLab) requires deep distributed systems engineering for Git storage, packfile negotiation, SSH/HTTPS git-smart protocol servers, and rock-solid branch consistency.
What it would actually take: A Git forge requires implementing a custom Git smart-protocol daemon or orchestrating libgit2/Gitaly nodes with raft-based consensus (like Praefect) to safely shard and replicate Git repositories. The platform demands complex access control, scalable blob storage, diff calculation engines, and real-time sync adapters to external forges like GitHub. This requires experienced distributed systems and infrastructure engineers.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 286 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 287 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 291 days after the earliest competitor.
- GitSeer · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Cursor for iOS · ph · 2026-06-30 · 614 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- GitHits beta 0.9 · ph · 2026-06-16 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet · hn · 2026-05-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- GitHub-Copilot-app · github · 2026-11-14 · 151 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GitHub-Copilot-app · github · 2026-11-14 · 672 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GitHub-Copilot-app · github · 2026-11-14 · 670 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GitHub-Copilot-app · github · 2026-11-14 · 666 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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