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Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by federino@programming.dev to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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I'm currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I'm currently out of ideas, so I'd like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

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[–] Zetaphor@zemmy.cc 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Go ahead and try scraping an arbitrary list of sites without an API and let me know how that goes. It would be a constant maintenance headache, especially if you're talking about anything other than the larger chains that have fairly standardized sites

[–] Dogyote@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I bet an AI could do it

[–] lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I don't think you understand how AIs work

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 5 months ago

@Dogyote @Zetaphor

And we also explored the AI option, it always turned out unrealistic. Either you would have to scrape the content and send it to the AI to parse the info, but then you'd be paying for every scrape, or run a powerful rig nonstop, but the results would still be hit and miss. Or you might let the AI generate the code for the scraping module, still not ideal, they were constantly hallucinating things that weren't there.