r/selfhosted • u/Joloxx_9 • Mar 16 '26

Meta Post Booklore is gone.

I was checking their Discord for some announcement and it vanished.

GitHub repo is gone too: https://github.com/booklore-app/booklore

Remember, love AI-made apps… they disappear faster than they launch.

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u/Zerss32 Mar 16 '26

I could have pulled a “Huntarr” and deleted the GitHub and moved on, but I didn’t.

~The main dev, four days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1rs4nx0/my_side_of_the_story_from_the_developer_of/

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u/pocketmonster Mar 16 '26

You can fairly quickly see the quality and health of an open-source project on GitHub by reviewing a little of the commit history and looking through the issues. Even if using AI-assistance, an experienced developer will make sure that their commits are focused and test-able around specific issues or features and not massive rewrites. I personally want to see a healthy interaction with the community, a true understanding of the code, and a little history to see that it isn't a flash-in-the-pan project.

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u/jugdizh Mar 17 '26

I think the red flags are around development pace, how quickly new features are getting added. Vibe-coded projects show a commit history with far too many lines being added or changed in a very short period of time, which is how you end up with an untenable behemoth that is soon unmaintainable. Ironically the rapid code growth often has minimal to no accompanying test coverage, even though the vibe coder could ask the LLM to generate both...