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franciskim

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I'm a full stack developer living in Melbourne Australia doing Node.js, Magento, React and Ionic. https://franciskim.co

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Unroll.me 9 years ago

I used unroll.me once but it didn't really work so I removed it.

I've seen some integrations where it uses Slack like a memo app, or for keeping records. I guess it's kind of feasible to use it that way, you just won't have anyone you can actually chat with... unless u want to install some AI chatbots... (most are shitty).

On the ethics side, I don't scrape large amounts of data - eg. giving clients lead gen (x leads for y dollars) - in fact, I have never done a scraping job and don't intend to do those jobs for profit.

For me it's purely for personal use and my little side projects. I don't even like the word scraping because it comes loaded with so many negative connotations (which sparked this whole comment thread) - and for a good reason - it's reflective of how the the demand in the market. People want cheap leads to spam, and that's bad use of technology.

Generally I tend to focus more on words and phases like 'automation' and 'scripting a bot'. I'm just automating my life, I'm writing a bot to replace what I would have to do on a daily basis - like looking on Facebook for some gifs and videos then manually posting them to my site. Would I spend an hour each and every day doing this? No, I'm much more lazier than that.

Who is anyone to tell me what I can and can't automate in my life?

Hmm yeah there are a lot of other things that I could write about. 80legs seem like another Scrapy type of SaaS? Not sure what you mean about gathering tokens from customers.

Ok guys, I've elaborated a bit - tried to make the aim of the post a bit clearer, and I've removed the stuff about Facebook because I don't want to discomfort other readers. It's 5:25AM, it's been a crazy morning and I've got work tomorrow! XD

Ok, I'll try to explain to this thread. I actually thought about removing the Facebook part, but I kept it in there because that is kind of how I felt and it is real. The middle-schooler tone and vocab is probably because I don't read a lot of books, and English is my 2nd language.

In reply to XCSme - no I am not new to Node and my point of the post is to illustrate some of the techniques that I haven't seen published anywhere to HN and the community. My focus is quite different from what you think it is, so maybe it is my bad for bad writing skills, I'm still new to writing and learning.

I think I might have some trouble with some reCAPTCHA stuff, but there must be ways around it. I agree with you on your point about AWS.