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What's the deal with this creator? Has anyone heard of him? (www.vayunmathur.com)

submitted 1 month ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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This is a single progammer who has been releasing new FOSS apps like gangbusters over the past few months. I've been in the open source community for a while now and it's pretty unusual.

Many of them are complex, ambitious, projects such as email client, calendar, location sharing, etc. There are also a lot of games that are pretty decent. In the past, app groups like this have been the work of teams of people over the course of years, not a single developer over months.

So I guess I'm curious if this looks like things are in the up and up. I don't notice any obvious telltale signs of vibe coding, but I don't really know enough to check code that way. I've used a couple apps and noticed thoughtful updated in features over time, so these don't seem vaporware, fly-by-night apps either.

Am I being paranoid? Is this really a single dev creating apps across a dozen different system functions? Anyone know who they are?

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[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It’s very possible, but consider them all beta projects that will not be maintained later.

Edit: after looking, yes it’s all vibes. But that doesn’t mean they are bad. The apps he’s making are very common apps. AI can easily make those. Expect bugs.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you.

I'll stick with the games for now.

As I said, there have been reasonable updates and it seems that the dev is taking some care. Still, several of these projects really require some specialized knowledge. I wouldn't trust my email to something that hasn't been carefully built and checked by people who know their stuff.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah exactly. I see an end to end encryption messaging app as well. I’m definitely trusting that to some teenager.