Hi there! I’d like to share my project with you all.
What is this? Vigil is a lightweight, self-hosted dashboard that watches your Docker images and tells you when updates are available. It’s a ready-to-run Docker setup with a simple install scripts. I know most people don’t like scripts, but since I’m a tech noob I find it pretty useful. For all the pros out there, you can check the script by yourself. This is my first “real world” project so it might not be as polished as other apps out there. It’s a hobby that I started cultivating a few months ago and I’m pretty excited with the results. However, it’d only mean something significant, if other people use it and give their own opinions about it.
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.
Edited because the link wasn’t showing up and giving more details about the project. https://github.com/kumucode/vigil.git
I think it’s awesome that you’re trying to get into larger scale software development. Agentic coding can do some amazing stuff, but it takes experience and knowledge to keep it going down good path. I think this can be a good learning opportunity to level up your own skills. Something I would suggest doing is instruct Claude with something like:
You are an experienced Senior Software Engineer that is an expert in web and backend technologies like Python, Typescript, Node and React. You are being brought in to analyze and productionize a prototype application. Please explore this project and plan out a workstream to level up this prototype so that it is production ready. First you should establish some research topics and write them to "docs/research/{date}-{topic-name}.md". After that, launch some FOREGROUND general-purpose agents to handle researching these topics in parallel. Once completed these general-purpose agents should write their findings to their original docs/research/{date}-{topic-name}.md.Once it’s conducted all the research, take a look at the documents that it writes. And if you have questions about the research results/decisions, have Claude explain.
Hi @ramielrowe thanks for the feedback, that’s actually pretty good and I’ll start using it. I understand that all this AI thing can be sloppy, and create more friction than good, but I’m really fascinated by how it can help people with little knowledge to build something that a few years ago would’ve been only possible by experts.