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Git repository failover system

Develop a tool that automatically mirrors critical Git repos to secondary providers during outages. Target teams burned by platform downtime.

Why now

High-profile Git hosting outages create urgency for small teams to implement redundancy.

Who for
Small dev teams
Business model
Monthly subscriptions
Effort
A few weeks

When major code hosting platforms go down, development grinds to a halt. A lightweight service could maintain read-only mirrors on alternative platforms, failing over automatically during outages.

Small engineering teams would pay for this business continuity protection, especially those deploying frequently.

Start by building GitHub-to-GitLab syncing for a single repo. Later add multi-directional sync and more providers.

Risk includes complexity of merge conflicts if both mirrors receive pushes during restoration.

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