Are you looking to just replace GH Pages or Github altogether? netlify is a nice step up from GitHub Pages. Once integrated with github or gitlab it will autodeploy changes from whatever branch you tell it. As a bonus, you get preview links on every pull request before merging and rolling out to your live site.

I prefer the term slot machine coding because you keep thinking you almost have a jackpot but there’s one lemon in there so you get that rush to keep pulling the lever and expecting different results.