--- title: "Connect GitHub to Multiple Accounts, Comparison Docs, Railway Hackathon" date: 2025-07-25 number: 0248 url: https://railway.com/changelog/2025-07-26-connect-github-to-multiple-accounts --- # Connect GitHub to Multiple Accounts, Comparison Docs, Railway Hackathon AI agents are now [writing your code](https://x.com/sidbidasaria/status/1948495478146167251), [making your memestock trades](https://x.com/xai/status/1948424094883471702), and if the roadmap stays on track, [driving your baby around town in a self-driving car](https://x.com/nateliason/status/1948099135925878937). Meanwhile, a [certain denim brand’s stock spiked after launching a celebrity campaign](https://x.com/litcapital/status/1948164703663882242), but anyone in the tech world knows [there’s a fashionable celebrity](https://x.com/Turist/status/1948187864883433538) who’s already been doing this for years. It was a weird week to be online. But it was also a great reminder that great design and great distribution still move markets, which is why we’re doubling down on both at Railway. We usually plug engineering roles in this space, but we wanted to let you know that [we’re also hiring across Marketing, Community, and Design](https://railway.com/careers). With that out of the way, let’s get into what we’ve shipped this week (while the bots take the wheel and we all pretend this is normal). Let’s go! ## Connect GitHub to Multiple Accounts [Image: You can now connect GitHub to multiple Railway accounts in your account settings] Last week we introduced [Get Paid to Bring Railway to Work™](https://railway.com/affiliate-program), where you can earn a whopping 15% commission on every dollar your referrals spend on Railway within the first 12 months. This week we're giving you another reason to bring Railway to work... Previously, if you signed up for Railway using your GitHub account, you were locked into using only that account and couldn't link your GitHub to any other Railway accounts. Unfortunately this created a major inconvenience — if you wanted to bring Railway to work ([BTW you can get paid for it](https://railway.com/affiliate-program)), you couldn’t connect your GitHub account to your work-related Railway account. Fortunately, that limitation is now lifted. You can now connect your GitHub account to multiple Railway accounts. Here's how it works: the Railway account you initially sign up with via GitHub will retain GitHub as the primary login method. Any other Railway accounts that you connect your GitHub to will not use GitHub for login but they can access GitHub-related content (like repositories) where authorized. Have feedback for us on this feature? File a ticket in [Central Station](https://station.railway.com/). 🙏 ## Compare Railway **with** Other Platforms [Image: New comparison docs show how Railway stacks up against the competition] One of the most common requests we get is to compare Railway against other platforms. We’ve put some serious muscle into re-writing our comparison guides to give you a better, fuller picture of the Railway advantages. You can now show your friends how Railway stacks up against [Vercel](https://docs.railway.com/maturity/compare-to-vercel), [Heroku](https://docs.railway.com/maturity/compare-to-heroku), [Render](https://docs.railway.com/maturity/compare-to-render), [Fly](https://docs.railway.com/maturity/compare-to-fly), and [DigitalOcean](https://docs.railway.com/maturity/compare-to-digitalocean). Did we miss something? Let us know by dropping us a line in [Central Station](https://station.railway.com/). ## Railway Hackathon We’re throwing* *the first ever [Railway hackathon](https://railway.com/hackathon)! Every [valid submission](https://form.typeform.com/to/scz5zHyw) gets $25 in Railway credits *and* we’re handing out up to $1,000 in cash prizes to the winners. [Image: First ever Railway Hackathon] You can [check out the announcement blog post](https://blog.railway.com/p/railway-hackathon-2025) for all the details but here’s the short version: The theme is “build something real on Railway and explain how you did it” (sorry we couldn’t find a shorter way of saying this). You can win in either: - Project sophistication: Your project solves a real problem, uses multiple services, and shows off what’s possible with a full end-to-end Railway setup. Bonus points if published on the [Railway templates marketplace](http://railway.com/deploy) - Content depth: You write something genuinely useful about your project: detailed, clear, and helpful for other devs Each category can have up to 3 winners (1st place: $1000, 2nd place $500, 3rd place $200) The Railway team will review submissions, and the community will have a vote too. Bonus points if you share your project on social media and tag us, which could tip the scales in your favor during close calls. The hackathon will run between Aug 6th – Aug 11th, so make sure to submit your project during those dates. Winners will be announced on August 15th. Make sure to beef up your template for [kickback](https://railway.com/open-source-kickback) or include your unique referral link in your content for [affiliate commission](https://railway.com/affiliate-program) (Infinite money glitch). Got questions? Ask away in our [Discord community](https://discord.com/invite/railway) in the #hackathon25 channel. Otherwise, we can’t wait to see what you create. ## Fixes & improvements - We made the `textarea` that displays environment variables expand vertically instead of horizontally for better readability for long values - We fixed some issues around sealed shared variables - We shipped an improvement that shows tooltips for non-admins when they try to perform admin-only actions, clarifying why those actions are disabled