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gitGost allows anonymous contributions to public GitHub repositories.It removes author info, email, timestamps, and opens PRs from a neutral bot. No accounts, OAuth, or tokens required.Built in Go, open source (AGPL-3.0), with abuse prevention via rate limits and validation.Feedback welcome.
HN · launched Jan 16, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: git management and workflow tools · 221 launches, 11 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 221 launches in git management and workflow tools →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Go service that acts as a proxy to accept git patches, sanitizes git author metadata, and creates a GitHub pull request using a centralized bot account and the GitHub REST API.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Throwaway account with git config pseudonym
Concerns raised: Typo in documentation (gitghost vs gitgost), PRs with no context/information won't be accepted by projects, No way to discuss or modify PRs after submission, Unclear if anonymity actually prevents correlation via timestamps/patterns
Feature requests: Allow adding contextual comments to PRs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 334 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #323 of 335 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 78 days after the earliest competitor.
- SlopScore · hn · 2026-01-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- git-token-auth · ph · 2026-09-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- GitBrag · ph · 2026-10-28 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- My Private GitHub on Postgres · hn · 2026-05-01 · 42 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet · hn · 2026-05-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- prdeck · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GitHub Dashboard aka GitBiased · hn · 2026-08-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- GitSeer · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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