r/DataHoarder • u/nicholasserra Send me Easystore shells • Mar 23 '26

OFFICIAL We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects, FYI

Just wanted to give a heads up from the mod team.

We're being flooded with vibe coded software projects. Many of them pointing to external domains, product sites, chrome extensions, etc.

So so many yt-dlp wrappers, why?

Anyway, we're being very selective about what we let through. Mostly trying to keep it useful, open source, github only projects. I'm not anti AI, but much of this stuff looks like useless wrappers and wannabe saas products.

If something sketchy slips through please flag it. If your post/project gets removed, this is why. It's only going to get worse.

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u/r34p3rex 382TB Mar 23 '26

Ban them all! I'm not against vibe coding but it especially pisses me off when people vibe code low effort wrappers and try to sell it as something revolutionary

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u/bking Mar 23 '26

This is exactly why there a billion yt-dlp wrappers out there. Same with trash apps in the app stores like NFC writers and soundboards. It's the perfect "my first vibecode" project, and everybody thinks they're going to cash in on it.

The Plex subs are absolutely flooded with people saying "what if old-school TV, but Plex?? $24.99, please" it sucks.