A lightweight self-hosted git forge that is resilient to AI scrapers out of the box, without bolting on a separate anti-bot proxy
Self-hosters leaving GitHub want a lightweight forge they can run on a small VPS, but AI scrapers crawl every file, git-blame view, and per-commit archive and exhaust the server. Forgejo/Gitea aren't resilient by default -- operators must require sign-in for all access or front the forge with a separate anti-bot layer like Anubis or Iocaine. The unmet need is a forge that's scrape-resistant by default, without the ops burden of running and tuning extra infrastructure.
The wedge is zero-config scrape resistance baked into the forge -- sensible per-route rate limits, archive/blame throttling, and bot heuristics on by default -- not 'go install Anubis'; the people asking are small self-hosters who will not stand up and tune a second reverse proxy just to publish a few public repos.
landscape (2 existing solutions)
There's no self-hosted forge that is simultaneously lightweight and scrape-resistant out of the box; today resilience means running and maintaining Anubis/Iocaine in front, which is the ops overhead that pushes hobbyist self-hosters away in the first place.