OpenRepos: AI Created Apps

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I have a feature request, and hope to reach someone running OpenRepos and the community.

I would like to see that AI generated apps is some how:

  1. Tagged with a possibility to filter them out from the list of applications that I see,
  2. Added to a separate section of the repo, or
  3. Banned - As Gnome has largely done.

I am not against using AI, and I know for sure that Claude and other solutions are fantastic products, but I chose SailfishOS for security, privacy and open source developed applications. I want applications to be developed by people that I perhaps one day meet and talk with, drink a coffee with or meet at a community meeting or open source conference, and discuss possible new features.

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First, we should define what exactly is a AI created apps? You mean vibe coding? What a code partially generated with an AI, but reviewed by a developer? What about an app which is totally open-source?

Many question we have to answer first before we do something :slight_smile:

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Your points are valid and need to be discussed.

Problem is that one person more or less publish 1 or 2 apps a day over at OpenRepos. I would like to see the «few trees in the massive forrest he is creating». And that potential devs don’t just assume that their app idea is” taken”


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I see no problem here. It’s mentioned in the description that the app has been developed with an AI and you’re on OpenRepos. It’s the user duty to check what he installs.

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The lack of screenshots is somewhat frustrating, it should be mandatory.

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For AI created apps or in general?

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In general, but the AI created Apps lack them hard.

Some choose an App by design, specially if there are more of a kind (e.g. Telegram-Client like Fernschreiber, Yottagram..etc).

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I try to avoid AI as much as possible so a disclaimer and the possibility to switch it off seems a good idea.

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Yes, maybe not entirely ban them but making it easier for users to hide them would be nice.
Many people simply don’t want to waste their time reading all the descriptions only to find out it’s an AI app at the end.

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All I can say is that I support filtering them out and that none of my apps have even a byte of clanker trash in them

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I also find it REALLY irritating that someone is spamming Openrepos with Claude experiments. I have nothing against ai, per se, but this level of production indicates spam. I now have a NO aviarus apps filter. Not pleasant.

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Call me an-anti hater then, but looking through some of the repos, this is actually pretty awesome.

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If you can get Basil to add an ‘AI App’ category to OpenRepos it will be possible to filter that out in Storeman.
Iff the author publisher chooses to categorize as such that is.

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I think some apps have real potential (e.g., WhatsApp), but the developer doesn’t maintain the AI ​​apps. With so many of apps, it’s no wonder
 And this is the main problem.

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That’s because vibe-coded apps are unmaintainable.

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Which repos! Most of these apps have minimal notes and no links to repos whatsoever? It’s spam! Or advertising for Claude (also spam).

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Adding Claude or AI was used to the app description seems like a good thing to me. Isn’t that what this whole topic is about? Calling them ads seems like an overreacting to me.

WhatsApp atleast had sources. Most of the apps seem to be using third party libraries with python wrapper on top of it and some qml.

Let the man cook.

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There are no links to repos. So I cannot inspect the code. I will certainly not INSTALL It just to see. Nor will I download the rpms, unpack them JUST TO SEE. It’s irresponsible and dangerous. People who don’t know better, which accounts for a large part of the population say ‘Yeah’ a solution and install it and our collective resource, openrepos, is the origin for some kind of hack!?!

No way, this should be a hard ban. Personally, I wouldn’t permit anything on openrepos without links to the repos so that audits are possible.

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That’s actually one of the really dangerous attack vectors possible through OpenRepos:

Publish some app which is bound to gain popularity (say, something called whatsapp), getting users to add your repo.

Wait.

Publish a malicious package, and make your original app depend on it.

Booom, malware distributed.

(Of course that is not related to vibe-coding as such.)

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It’s exactly what happens on Firefox or Chrome with some addons

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