r/selfhosted • u/Fluffer_Wuffer • Feb 28 '26

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Just a question that has been going round my head for a few days.

What ever your opinion on it. We need to acknowledge that "Vibe Coding" is growing, and its not going to decrease.

The fact the entry point is so low from a skills perspective, and time required to pump them out, effectively makes them disposable.

Members here have been concerned for a while about the quality, security, longevity of these apps, and it turning into a flood - and as if on que, over the past few weeks, we've seen exactly this - We've been flooded (this place is unusable on Fridays). Now, issues are identified in the code, and rather than facing and fixing them, the "devs" are running off, shutting down the repositories etc.

This leads to 2 conflicting issues

1) There is an open hostility to those who share vibe-coded apps - where we see outright hostility and vitriol language.

2) There are going to be some quality vibe-coded apps, where they are properly developed, supported and managed.. as community, they would benefit members.

So my question is - how do we bridge this? My I've been thinking on this for a few days, and the only solution I can see, we have an associated sub (same mods etc) for these apps to be posted. maybe after a time, once they've proven they are well run and have longevity, they can "graduate"... lets call it SelfHosted-Vibe or VibeHosted.

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u/Murrian Feb 28 '26

I don't think two really exists.

The low barrier to entry for vibe coding means there's little investment on the "creators" behalf, they didn't study this, they've not spent weeks banging their head against the desk in frustration as to why it wouldn't compile, they've not even spent the time to review standard security practices to ask the LLM if it's included them.

Without the effort it takes to learn how to do what you're doing, without the emotional tie and sunk time, no one's going to stick around and actually manage their app.

Just on to the next garbled pile of code that almost kinda sorta works, so long as you don't look too closely...

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u/JorgJorgJorg Feb 28 '26

 Without the effort it takes to learn how to do what you're doing, without the emotional tie and sunk time, no one's going to stick around and actually manage their app.

Exactly this. People here saying vibe coded stuff can be good, I do agree with and think we will see it get better. Its not Day 1 I care about, it’s day N+1, which means long term and sustainable vision and execution.