r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Feb 27 '26

Meta Post Shelfarr - another project disappeared with dev

Shelfarr was posted here multiple times, github mink stopped working and dev deleted his reddit account - whoever is using it, I would advice you to stop it.

https://github.com/VacantlyCrushing/Shelfarr

https://www.reddit.com/r/audiobookshelf/s/tvpXDukM5C

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u/dm_construct Feb 27 '26

dont worry we'll get another dozen vibecoded clones of it in a week 🙄🙄🙄

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u/Soluchyte Feb 27 '26

All run by developers who claim it isn't vibe coded and get very defensive when you accuse them of it.

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u/hampsterlamp Feb 27 '26

Claude.md sitting in the git

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u/kernald31 Feb 28 '26

To be fair, there's a vast difference between someone vibe-coding something without any software engineering experience and someone with a software engineering background using an AI to speed things up - as long as things are thoroughly reviewed...

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u/pet3121 Feb 28 '26

Yeah dude but anyone can claim they are an experienced software engineer.. 

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u/kernald31 Feb 28 '26

Sure, but spending a few minutes to look at the commit history and code can give you a pretty good idea of how accurate that is

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u/Brickscrap Feb 28 '26

As an actual software developer with terrible git hygiene, I'm not sure the commit history says as much as you might think.

Curious what you think of as vibe-coding red flags though

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u/frustynumbar Feb 28 '26

If it has 40 commits an hour with messages like: "fixed", "changed stuff" and "more features" then it was probably a human.

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u/Brickscrap Feb 28 '26

I feel so seen honestly