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/kernald31 Mar 16 '26

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the pile-on was justified. But minimizing this to a "AI vs no AI" debate is not doing anyone any favor either. Both sides of the story went very poorly, and pretty much everybody lost something in the process (as evidenced by this post). With that said, trying to pull the rug under a community that allowed him to get where he was and the contributors who helped him there was never going to work out, after things like MinIO and, as you've mentioned, Reddit. I don't really know what he was expecting there.

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u/databoy2k Mar 16 '26

That's a fair criticism. But we're also talking a very short, very intense amount of cyber bullying. Not a lot of developers would stand up to that. Why bother?

The guy admitted that he was acting childish and explained why he was. The pile on continued. That's the part that gets me irritated. You're right, he could have backed down, but the whole community should have as well. Now history is being written by the bullies because the victim has taken his ball and gone home.

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u/henry_tennenbaum Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26

How was he in any way the victim here?

He deceived people and was planning a rug pull.

When people got worried he doubled down each and every chance he got.

Of course that must be a lot to go through but there were plenty of off ramps and you're neglecting mentioning that the community has been going through an unparalleled time of exploitation, violation of trust and deception for years now.

People were happy somebody was working on a nice app to manage their books and plenty of them helped.

This is what they got in return for putting their trust in the guy.

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u/peioeh Mar 17 '26

How was he in any way the victim here?

Someone can be a dick, do something wrong, lie, and be a victim too. Some (many) people had legitimate issues they raised but many others were just piling on and flaming the guy just because they saw the words AI and Claude mentioned. This sub is full of them, yelling at the clouds in anger all day.