GitHub Pages support serving static websites on private repos.

I think you're just looking for a CMS, like Contentful or Sanity which is what I prefer.
Using a database is absolutely overkill as there's no reason to use it. For example, how does the client update his data?
By using a CMS, your client can have a dashboard to interact and modify the data, without programming skills.

and CMS are mostly free for small amount of data, you don't have to pay for that at all

awesome, thank you.

I heard good things about Sanity

btw if you appreciate my answer, feel free to mark it as the solution

@Brown bear check out https://github.com/TimMikeladze/gist-database

I built it specifically for simple scenarios where you just need to store a trivial piece of data

But don’t want to use a database provider

Nice library

Thanks!

@fuma apologies, I got caught up in things and forgot. I checked it out and it’s not quite what I need, since I already have a fully built app on Next. I’ll check out @linesofcode ‘s library soon.

@Brown bear do let me know if it helps

You mentioned you’re just storing a list of uploaded images?

If it’s really that simple you could rely on metadata in your object storage provider