Hello Everyone! These last months I’ve been working on a clean-room FOSS implementation of the CLZ software suite. For those unfamiliar with them, they offer collectionists applications for users, particullary aimed at physical media (comics, movies, tv shows, books, music). I hated when they made the switch to the SaaS model because they separated web and mobile apps and each has a separate subscription fee, for each one of their apps. I decided to start a free alternative to it, almost 1:1: https://github.com/collectarr/collectarr-app
The architecture of the service is centralized and can be soft hosted. The app stores everything locally on the users device, the sync service is supposed to be hosted by the user and allows syncing between devices and the core one stores only item metadata (no personal data that users stores on their entries). That metadata is manually curated and will be expanded by the community with proposals and will be hosted on my server when I’ll have the basic schema for most collection kinds going on. In the near future I’ll also make a sync bridge between Collectarr and Floppy so each physical release watching/reading status can be synced with floppy media entries.
AND YES I’VE USED AND I WILL CONTINUE TO USE AI FOR IT, IT’S A GREAT TOOL. All testing is done personally by me, my main motivation is to have a clz free alternative that I personally use. I would love if you could try this (the desktop app is the most stable currently and I recommend you trying it). I accept any ideas, issues and PR proposals. For an indepth guide there’s also the page that I hosted on github: https://collectarr.github.io/collectarr-page/ But keep in mind docs and the manual keep changing very fast these days because of the nature of the applications, and it takes a while to update all of them, I’m the only contributor so far.
This is most likely going to be downvoted into the ground, and if you’re new here, you might be confused as to why, so let me help you:
Nobody likes accounts created specifically for the purpose of self-promotion. I don’t know why people still insist on doing this. It’s basically an advertisement, even if it’s an advertisement for a free product - nobody wants to see advertisements. Your whole account (as of this time) is a walking advertisement. At least you didn’t name it CollectarrDev or something stupid like that, so you’ve got that going for you, which is nice.
You’re pro-AI, which is just a generally unpopular stance around here to put it lightly.
If you aren’t new here, then shame on you, you should know better, and you’re getting what you deserve. Post on your main account, you coward.
To be honest I expected different kind of people here compared to reddit, but it seems trolls are everywhere these days. Disliking everything based on assumptions.
The advertisement is mostly because I want to break CLZs monopoly on that, not because I care for any donations or money returns. Just as that team wants to do the same for Adobe products.
TBH i don’t think most of the criticism you’re getting is based on assumptions or trolling. Did you even read the README and other documentation? There’s a lot of placeholder content and it shows that very little effort was actually made. You say you used AI as a tool, but from the commits, it looks like AI did all the work and there wasn’t even much supervision or review of work being done.
How do you expect others to be able to contribute and form a community to support this project? What plans do you have if you can not afford the AI credits to continue developing this project. What do you expect people to do if you must abandon this project?
No this shows that the project evolves fast and there’s no point in updating the readme every day at each change; I’m getting close to a final release soon and I’ll update the readme accordingly. Again, I’m the only contributor, there’s so much I can do. If you got any questions I’m more than open to answer them; at the end of the day the readme is useless for people anymore, agents can just set you up in seconds with any kind of FOSS project. It’s just a matter of getting you entitled head out of your ass.
Even more, what you do is judge a book by its cover, well done mate, you’re very smart.
You are attempting to distribute software without even following the basics of software development (like creating a changelog). By all means vibecode for personal projects to your hearts content. But if you’re going to have other users than yourself, at least do the bare minimum.
there is a changelog bro… are you blind?
fuckin asshole
Keep editing your comment haha. Maybe on the fourth edit you’ll have really hurt my feelings 😁
If you’re intending this for only AI agents to use this, then yeah I guess a README and documentation isn’t necessary, but the reason you’re posting this here is for people to buy in and start using this in their day to day lives. Nothing you’ve presented gives any confidence that this project will be maintained a year from now assuming you decide to give up the project or Claude changes it’s TOS and refuses to write code for these kinds of projects.
It was supervised; I’m testing all of these changes by hand. Yes there are still a lot of placeholders, I’m still just a man at the end of the day and I’m guiding the AI, not making him do the project however he wants. “What do you expect people to do if you must abandon this project?” Well this can apply to any other project as well, AI or not. Teey can just look at my commit history for other projects and my github activity; it’s not that hard.
The LLM is an “it” not a “him”
You say that, and then you shamelessly self-promote and dump a cuck-coded repo on us and sing its praises. You have done zero contribution to our community to establish your technical aptitude, let alone make a positive difference to the community itself.
The fact that you are baffled by this reception is honestly hilarious. Pull your sanctimonious head out of your ass.
Okay Bro I’ll let you clean my ass. Blocked.
Yes i’m new here; I made the account after I got tired of reddit, not necessarily for self advertisement, but at the end of the day these communities I’ve posted to are exactly for this so I don’t see a problem with it.
And yeah, I know pro AI is an unpopular stance, not everyone is a developer. I’ve never seen a developer anti AI, even Linus Torvalds is pro AI now. Those anti AI dudes just don’t value their time and don’t know how to use it efficient. They just hate the influx of slop, which is just a momentary thing, it will soon balance itself. But the problem was never AI, it was social media. So disliking AI for this, is the same as disliking Internet.
Anyways, thanks for the response mate. Don’t worry about me, I’m used to getting hated for unpopular beliefs.
If you were a user with some post history to establish yourself here, who had participated in these communities previously, either as a poster or a commenter, had gotten to know the demographic that resides here, and who had then posted about your own project, you’d have gotten a very different reception (well, maybe not, because of the AI opinions, but you at least wouldn’t have gotten shit on for the self-promotion). That’s not what you did. You created an account and immediately came to advertise your vibe-coded app. It might be a quality product, but nobody here knows you, you have no history, and you’re shilling slop, so that’s what we’re assuming it is. Nobody’s going to touch it.
Also, if you do want to participate here long-term, maybe research the instance you’re signing up on and make sure you agree with what they promote, because the instance you choose immediately creates a preconceived perception of you.
" might be a quality product, but nobody here knows you, you have no history, and you’re shilling slop, so that’s what we’re assuming it is. Nobody’s going to touch it."
Isn’t internet just for that, to find new people? Making “a history”. Bro you’re praising communities like they are your life dude. Who the fuck has the time to check account histories. You may have OCD on this I don’t know about you, freaking purist. Blocked.
And nothing of value was lost.