Hi there! I’d like to share my project with you all.
What is this? Vigil is a lightweight, self-hosted dashboard that watches your Docker images and tells you when updates are available. It’s a ready-to-run Docker setup with a simple install scripts. I know most people don’t like scripts, but since I’m a tech noob I find it pretty useful. For all the pros out there, you can check the script by yourself. This is my first “real world” project so it might not be as polished as other apps out there. It’s a hobby that I started cultivating a few months ago and I’m pretty excited with the results. However, it’d only mean something significant, if other people use it and give their own opinions about it.
If you have a few minutes, I’d really appreciate you trying it out and leaving a review or suggestions on the repo or even here. I’d do my best to answer most of the comments.
Edited because the link wasn’t showing up and giving more details about the project. https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git
It’s not a bad idea at all to have a label so we could set expectations right. But don’t be too harsh on me ;) Just being able to pull a functional app without much of experience is already a reasonable accomplishment is it?
Self made? Yes
AI made? Not really. It’s asking your friend to do it and then punlish it under your own name and no credits given.
IMO: Nothing to be much proud of. You just steered a coding monkey
Why would this be an accomplishment we need to celebrate? Something else than you wrote that code. If you want to celebrate an accomplishment you could say “I was part of an AI vibe coding project and we created something functional”. What you did now was putting yourself front and center where you have no place to be, you are a supporting actor, at best. Its like a project manager telling everyone they accomplished getting a product out the door, giving people the impression they did that by themselves only. No, you were part of a team where (most probably) the real work was done by others. Same applies here: you used the coding abilities of another/something else to somehow toot your own horn and tell the world you did this. You did not. You never shared any info on the others involved on your team who did all the heavy lifting, only to reveal this info when pressed by others.
I get your point about giving proper credit to the tools involved, and that’s fair. I’m not trying to pass this off as traditional from-scratch coding. Reducing it to “you did nothing” feels a bit excessive. At the same time, there’s still effort in figuring out what to build, iterating, debugging, and getting something functional out. That’s the part I’m happy about.
I was a bit harsh. If you are happy about this project then that is good enough.
I agree with people though, I wish there was a mandatory tag to indicate using AI on a project.
Even this comment stinks of LLM style. Please stop trying to bring about the dead internet.