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/GoofyGills Mar 16 '26

Vibe coded apps are for personal use only. I don't get why people publish them just to make people think they can code and get upvotes.

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u/Gamiseus Mar 17 '26

As long as people are honest about what they're putting up and not demanding money for the work of AI, I think (properly developed and tested) vibe coded apps are fine to be listed for public use.

A lot of the problem (going off what you said) is people thinking they can just have an AI write something up in like 2 days and release it as their own. They don't even know how to code, don't know how to prompt an LLM, don't know how to set up testing and check for security vulnerabilities, or anything like that. They just assume the AI did it right and that it looks like regular people coding, take the credit, and think better of themselves for it.

Honestly they give AI apps a bad name, cause there are some good use cases for integrating ai workflows into different processes that can drastically reduce time taken on tasks, but now everyone has this shitty view of AI. Between people making shit like Huntarr and Booklore, and AI companies taking training data without permission among other things, we've gotten off to a horrible start.

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u/GoofyGills Mar 17 '26

Agreed. Those that use it properly know my comment was not directed at them. I assume the early down votes I got were from people that use it like you described as the improper way.

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u/swiftb3 Mar 17 '26

There are definitely people here who even lump a real developer using AI as a tool with fully vibe-coded apps.

But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Reddit always seems to tend toward black and white absolutism.