**#A quick edit to address something important and provide a disclaimer: **
Thank you all for your feedback! This project was “vibecoded” with Cloude AI and serves more as a “proof of concept” for what could be achieved with AI assistance. I’m just a tech enthusiast, and I’m excited to continue exploring new possibilities. I understand there’s a real concern about “AI Slop,” but that’s exactly why I’m sharing this project with you all so that experts who are interested in the idea can offer guidance or even help improve it.
I’ve noticed that many people with home labs prefer to update their applications manually instead of relying on other apps that automate the process. Often, they have to check each one individually. That’s where Vigil comes in. The primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources. This way, you can decide what and when to update.
To be honest, I hope it ends up being useful to others as it is for me.
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.
Well, I’m no tech expert at all so I’m just trying to get things right. I might not be able to answer everything, but I’ll do my best to get you an answer.
Not being very technical and publishing a project that is essentially coding…
Whaaaat? <Insert minion meme here>
That screams for AI slop.
Trust issues aside: What does it do better than the bazillion other dashboards?
Hi Appoxo, I agree that AI can be slop, but it seems like it’s getting better over time. I’m not claiming that this is a revolutionary new application, it’s more like a prove of concept that I wanted to test out. What does it do? well, you basically have a centralized place to keep tracking of your docker images and get a notification when there’s a new release so you can update it manually or automatically as you wish that’s the main utility of it. There are a few other things but, maybe thye aren’t interesting enough.
Have you vibecoded this?
Absolutelly vibecoding it with Cloude. I understand a bit of python and html but I’m no dev or technical professional at all. I just wanted to see if I could build something useful without much of technical expertise.
I appreciate you being honest in your response here.
I’d recommend adding this disclaimer to the post text and repo readme for complete transparency, and so anyone who doesn’t want to use AI-generated projects can move on without creating arguments in the comments.
There are many genuine reasons to not trust code generated by LLMs, especially with anything network-connected or handling important data, so it’s important to be upfront about it.
100%, just take a quick look at the repo. I wish there was a rule in this community that requires a label for vibecoded apps.
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?
I don’t think so. I think I could pull together something like this using AI and enough money/tokens, and without reviewing the code produced too much in a day, a few days for polish, after thinking about it. But I have the advantage of knowing backend, frontend, tech stacks, what works, etc. But I would have little to no knowledge over the code base and what it does outside of the visual.
In the end with these LLM models, you just describe what you want and they fill in the rest. No skill required, and that’s what scares me the most for our future.