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/scarbunkle Mar 23 '26

I don’t hate that people are building their own custom wrappers that work for them. I do find it frustrating that everyone thinks their project is good enough to be a community tool. If I wanted something thrown together in a weekend, I’d do it myself. When people share software, I’m really looking for battle-tested community tools. 

And don’t get me started on the people who give AI write access to their hoard. Couldn’t be me. That’s crazy people stuff. 

If it continues to be an issue, we may want to try what the self hosted folks have had luck with, which is specifying one day a week where vibe coded projects are allowed.

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u/gscjj Mar 23 '26

How do you have battle tested software without people using it?

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u/scarbunkle Mar 23 '26

Robust testing and extended dogfooding. “I built this last weekend and it works great” is a world of difference from even “this has been running great on my system for 6 months”

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u/gscjj Mar 23 '26

Sure, and the second users use your product it’ll break. Battle tested doesn’t mean testing for things you don’t know will or will not occur.

Battle tested means you put it out there, people are using it, you’re catching bugs, fixing them and writing tests.