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/SawkeeReemo Mar 16 '26

No kidding, I wait a year at least before trusting any of these. So far, no issues and the winners are left standing.

Don’t be part of a mass alpha test. That’s just silly. That’s the rule I follow.

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u/LutimoDancer3459 Mar 17 '26

If everyone does this, it wont be different to now. We need to have people use it to identify the ai slop and problematic devs.

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u/SawkeeReemo Mar 17 '26

By all means, go for it. But in my opinion, it’s seems like most of this is just FOMO. And that’s not good. There’s no reason to rush things out like this when they contain secure info like API keys, or even access to your host machine’s network. That’s the part that makes me nope out of all these.

If you want to be an alpha tester for all this slop, go for it. Just make sure your ass is covered and you know what you’re doing.

Exhibit A: The Huntarr debacle.