**#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primary function of Vigil is to centralize the information and give users clear visibility of which applications are outdated, their current version, and the newer version available from several sources.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.
Great idea. Automatic updates (e.g. Watchtower) make me a little nervous.
Yeah that’s exactly what I was thinking about when I started this project. I’ve noticed that many home labers are a bit skeptical with automatic updates. I’m glad you liked the idea
Sorry, but you have posted only 1 sentence about the project and not even a link to the project.
Additional with the
scripts—basically “em dash” which is really popular among llm generated texts, i get a bad feeling about it.
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.
Make it support Podman next.
I’d love too if I knew how to do that. I still have lots of things to learn and do before putting my toes on these waters, but I’m glad you showed some interest even to mention an integration with other tools. Thanks for that.
My god. This timeline is so horrible.
Their AI agent doesn’t understand that.
Thanks for the proof of concept. I suppose it’s essentially a self-hosted version of newreleases.io?
That’s pretty cool, I’ve never heard about newreleases.io I might take a look at it later. Thanks
Cool project. Building something that exactly fits a problem you have is one of the most liberating parts of programming!
I wouldn’t worry too much about the people mad about you using AI. It’s a powerful tool and I would be silly to not make use of it. I guarantee that a everyone using the internet today has had their packets flow through some piece of “vibe code”.
One of my favorite features is having the AI tool explain back what every part of the code does. I helps you build understanding of both the code itself and is an excellent place to find bugs!
Keep it up
That’s actually a good idea. I was thinking about getting the features “working” as intended. I’ll give it a try to the “explain back” method and see how it goes. Thanks
I would always recommend getting the bare minimum working great before adding extra features. If you get too far into features, making foundational changes get significantly harder.
Totally agree with that. I was trying to keep things as simple as possible, but there was always a new thing to try. I’m currently not implementing anything new, just focusing on enhancing what is already there.
