Ask HN: Startups – Are you on a monorepo or multi-repo set up?

Not at a startup, but at a small company (We had our own GitLab instance and we were all open source enthusiasts and building micro-ish services, so it seemed natural for us to do multi-repo.

Eventually we realized it was creating a lot of unnecessary overhead, as we often were submitting patches for a single ticket to multiple repos which all required separate reviews.

Guess it depends on your definition of a mono-repo vs multi-repo. I'd consider what we have as a mono.

We have one repo which is our main web application (user dashboard, landing page, etc..), our API, and our scheduled tasks. With how much code is shared between these services it just makes sense to keep them together.

We then have separate repo's for other services that aren't critical or apart of what was mentioned above.