Stars Paul Bae
| Stars Paul Bae | |
| Occupation | Software developer, entrepreneur |
|---|---|
| Known for | Founder of Gitdot |
Stars Paul Bae (also known online as baepau) is a software developer and entrepreneur known as the founder of Gitdot, a platform positioned as an alternative to GitHub for open-source software maintainers. The company aims to provide a purpose-built code hosting and collaboration environment emphasizing performance, security, and software craftsmanship.
Career
Bae founded Gitdot with the stated goal of building "a better GitHub." The company targets open-source maintainers who, in Bae's framing, are underserved by the existing dominant platform. Gitdot's premise rests on the observation that GitHub's effective monopoly on open-source code hosting has, over time, allowed certain aspects of the platform to degrade, particularly in areas such as continuous integration.[1]
The company's planned feature set includes a high-performance Git server written in Rust, a CI/CD platform described as "secure by design and locally testable," and an issue tracker oriented toward the needs of project maintainers rather than issue submitters. Gitdot has explicitly stated that it will not pursue feature parity with GitHub, instead focusing on reliability and quality of experience for a smaller initial user base.
Gitdot has also taken a number of opinionated positions that distinguish it from GitHub. The platform will not include an AI coding assistant, characterizing AI as "an implementation detail, not a feature." It will not implement a star or popularity metric system, questioning whether such features genuinely serve maintainers. Public repositories will be free, while private repositories will require payment.
Bae announced a target launch date of March 31, 2026, and committed to publishing weekly developer logs detailing both progress and the reasoning behind product decisions. In describing this approach, Bae stated the logs would be "strikingly forthright," inviting public scrutiny of the company's design choices.[2]
Little additional biographical information about Bae's personal background or prior career has been publicly documented in connection with Gitdot. The company has been featured by Huge Magazine.[3]