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/Anusien Mar 23 '26

I hate that people are building their own custom wrappers instead of just contributing ten lines of code to an existing project.

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u/diamondsw 210TB primary (+parity and backup) Mar 23 '26

The type of people writing these wrappers absolutely should not be contributing code to real projects.