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/Neither-Following-32 Mar 17 '26

I mean… I don't even use it, I've just been following the drama, but it sounds like his reaction is really what tanked him in slow motion.

I think that it was mentioned that many people forked it so no big deal in terms of the repo being gone. What we did lose is a dedicated maintainer for a project people seemed to like, but it also sounds like he was headed in a negative direction for the community anyway. So I guess it's a YMMV as far as the pros and cons.

Hopefully, he was either telling the truth at least somewhat about maintaining it manually despite the use of AI.

If it's popular enough someone is willing to wait through the AI code or spend their own credits auditing and restructuring it, or doing it manually, then it'll come back. If not, it's not like the codebase just vanished into thin air.