The amount of duplicate projects around is truly astonishing. This post is more of a plea. If you are doing a project that focuses on:
- Improving observability on usage
- Convert skills etc
- Dashboards Please, for the love of god, check what people have already done, your work will have more impact when applied to an existing codebase with established user base, and more importantly, trust. No, I’m not gonna download the npm package you posted with “I had X problem so I built this - Here’s why”, nor will a lot of other people here, it is a security risk, it is very often just terrible. People are good at pattern recognition, the truth is that the 50th daily ai utility is automatically rejected by almost everyone. I will try to enumerate some of the reasons that come to mind, please note this is a generalization, prepend each item with “Usually”: Unreliable, not tested, paths not even run by the whoever built it Unmaintainable, opaque code. A ton of these tools are spat out by an LLM, not controlling your codebase is scary Template language, template UI, rebuilding the wheel many times Worse support Bot and automated marketing. If you delegate “selling” your tool to a robot, with 0 personality, and don’t even try to write the text or at least amend the text, why would I, or anybody else, read it? 0 Awareness for security Pls, search on github, or on reddit your project idea. If you’re already building one for yourself, consider doing that search before publishing, consider this an act of altruism, maybe it’s better to convert to an existing codebase and do a PR instead. submitted by /u/white_sheets_angel
Originally posted by u/white_sheets_angel on r/ClaudeCode
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