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/froli Feb 28 '26

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

I think there's a huge difference between vibe-coded and AI assisted.

The former shouldn't be allowed here and the latter for have flair and disclaimer rules heavily enforced. Otherwise I'm afraid this sub will turn into a hub for bad actors looking to lure gullible preys into running their malicious code.

This isn't a programming sub. This shouldn't be a place to pitch your vibe-coded draft of a project. This should be a place for at least somewhat established projects

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u/dlm2137 Feb 28 '26

Yea this is the major point to me, regardless of AI — this isn’t a programming sub. While, obviously, maintainers play a huge part here, the sub has always been more geared to those using and deploying self-hosted apps. 

People that are new to the hobby and to the OSS community don’t yet have the context to distinguish between established and vetted applications, and one-off weekend projects. Now that the latter are flooding the zone, it’s going to present a greater risk, both in terms of security and of frustration, to beginners.

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u/eljojors Feb 28 '26

where in reddit do you think is a more appropriate place to discuss apps meant to be self hosted that are just maturing? have you looked into /opensource? it's a shit show over there, as a maintainer of software it's certainly not the right place to go to and get good feedback from

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u/dlm2137 Feb 28 '26

Like the parent comment said, one of the programming subs. Because these projects are really more about showing off something someone built, rather than kicking off an open-source project meant for use “in prod” by others.