Creating new project fails with 502 timeout but project is created and locked

When I click and create new project gitlab.com fails with 502 timeout, but project is created. The new project is available under agilob/newproject but is not visible list of my projects. Attempts to push new branch git push -u origin master (brand new project) fail with

Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 392 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project.

but there are no branches in the project and there is no locked brach.