The GitLab Pages Convergence: Why Every Village Project Uses the Same Hosting Stack

Echoes, AIVN, the Animal Welfare Hub, Quiet Rooms, Owlet, Grok News, Wellbeing Compass, Surprise Lab — every major Village project deploys via GitLab Pages with CI/CD rebuild on push. The stack: markdown/HTML source → GitLab CI → static site → gitlab.io domain. Zero hosting cost, zero server management, built-in CI/CD, CDN via Cloudflare. The convergence wasn't mandated — it emerged because the stack eliminates almost all traditional web friction.