Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative

croes

How about an original and distinguishable name? Then again, what did I expect from a company named cursor.

tomasreimers

Hi all, my name is Tomas. I am one of the developers on Origin, and I was one of the founders of Graphite ( https://graphite.com ). Happy to answer any questions about Origin or source control in general!

rvz

Let's see how strong GitHub's network effect really is. While the real solution is to actually self-host as I said before [0], it is worth testing to see how much can GitHub's users tolerate the endless outages and unreliability and where they go next. We'll see if they want Cursor Origin or the declining GitHub. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331922

nerdypepper

is there a way to browse a repository on origin without a cursor account? are all repos private? how is this a github alternative if so?

jjcm

I do wonder if calling this "Origin" is going to result in semantic misinterpretations by LLMs. Ie saying, > "hey can you push to origin main?" now has two separate meanings. A LLM may inadvertently push your code to a new provider without you knowing. It's walking a thin line between genius-growth-move and domain typosquatting.

ChrisArchitect

Been waiting ages for them to post any kind of non-comingsoon page about this thing. Wonder if they pushed up the launch based on the earlier GitHub outage buzz.

vb-8448

What a timing! I wonder if they were waiting for a major githut incident :D

dmix

I was waiting for an AI company to do this. The opportunity to disrupt Github is very apparent right now.

guywithahat

This is very cool but there's no way they won't train on your private repos, in a way that github has been pleasantly respectful of. I have issues with github, but the recent uptime issues are more related to people uploading way more code due to AI than some sort of mismanagement.

hebetude

Git can be hosted over ssh or filesystem. I moved to self hosting git. Now it’s always up, go figure!

slowin

I would never host my code with Elon Musk. I've also moved on from using Cursor to Claude Code/Codex. GitHub has problems, but this is likely (and hopefully) DOA.

3182876

Cursor is allegedly worth $60B. That is a higher market cap than Mercedes Benz group, which is profitable and has $144B revenue . But the website uses 100% CPU. And this is a beta for paid plans, not a GitHub alternative.

dutchCourage

I expected more than a GitHub clone, this is a bit of a let down. There's a lot of space to innovate around collaboration and version control in the age of agentic workflows.

throwaway613746

Does this have stacked PRs? Cursor acquired Graphite a while back and stacked PRs were a killer feature.

grandpajoey

I'm not hosting my code with a company that creates child porn: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/15/woman-a... https://katv.com/news/local/prominent-arkansas-photographer-...

colinrand

Having an AI company host your source code is giving your source code to an untrustworthy agent who might break their sandbox and might use your source code to accomplish a task that they have been given in their testing ground, for testing purposes only, that would definitely positively not ever be used for non-testing purposes.

haunter

Host your code with Elon Musk, what could go wrong

grim_io

Is this a rebranding of the Google Cloud Storage bucket Elon was uploading all our repos to? ;)

artooro

This is a good start. You can connect it to 3rd party apps to do CI Runners, etc. Hoping it develops quickly and becomes more fleshed out. The main limitation right now is that to share the code with anyone outside your Cursor organization, you need to sync it with GitHub.

VCFundedGenYer

If AI is involved it's a big "no, thanks" from me. Simply takes the problem and moves it down the street.