Hey all,
I was looking for a Youtube downloader to self-host, and when I found one that looked really great, it was no longer functional. So, I vibe-coded a new one.
Hermes is a front end app and a REST API for yt-dlp.
This is fully functional but I just got it on Github so give me a few days to publish images. But, feel free to clone it down now and build it yourself!
Personally, whether or not this will be maintained in the future is the biggest reason why I’m unlikely to try this. If the main developer vibe-coded it up, then in my book there’s a lower chance that the codebase will be maintained in the future.
If your response to “How will you maintain this?” is “nothing is owed”, it really cements the idea that this will not be maintained.
If an application is unlikely to be maintained in the future, then the risk-reward ratio will rarely justify me incorporating it into my workflow.
He did add to the prompt “make it secure and maintain it” so He’s good.