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Most of Flathub's AI-generated apps were abandoned within months [XDA, Jul 18, 2026]
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Even without vibe coding, writing an app from scratch has always been the easier/easiest part. The hard part is maintaining the app and keeping it alive over the years.
It always amazes me when a project has a maintainer for longer than 10 years.
I always have said. Open Source shouldn't mean free labor. I personally develop open source software and get paid. And I am really against advocating that because the project is open source, the maintainer is not supposed to get paid and do it in their free time, voluntarily, and as a hobby.