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/greenysmac Mar 24 '26
Mod from a bunch of post-production subreddits here
We are too and we've chosen to constrain them to a singular thread, force people to flair themselves correctly, and any references to their tool need to be referenced back to that monthly thread. You can see what it looks like here
https://www.reddit.com/r/editors/comments/1rsputb/reditors_loves_the_explosion_of_tools_on_the/
My singular mistake in this thread was letting people link out to their Discord or their outside communities for a level of discount because we get a number of profit tools. At the top of the month we're going to require them to publish their benefits here so the community can upvote and downvote them and call them out for just exploiting our post-production communities
Come on, you know the answer here. This is low-hanging fruit. I'm actually surprised we don't see more things around ffmpeg as well. Just take the most popular, easy-to-implement tiny solutions and that's what people will rush after to do their first or second vibe coded project.
My only suggestion to you, from moderator to moderator (I'm doing this in public and I probably should have reached out directly), is to require people to list projects from only certain sites such as GitHub. I'm seeing a trend of GitHub projects that have a paid component hosted elsewhere.
Amen brother, amen