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.
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.