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Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by markovbot on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:34PM (#21250710)
Why would it need a visible UI component? Just put it in a cron job
Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by crooked-v on Monday October 14, 2019 @01:38PM (#21250758)
Ordinary people don't use cron jobs.
Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by patjenk on Monday October 14, 2019 @03:03PM (#21251601)
I suspect that's because of bad reviews. I give all crons 5 *'s.
Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by barbellguy97 on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:11PM (#21251108)
This is not made for ordinary people I would say
Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by crooked-v on Monday October 14, 2019 @02:17PM (#21251180)
Ordinary people would absolutely use an app that lives in the menu bar/system tray, has a Safeway login page and a "run on startup" option, and once a day does magic stuff in the background that adds all the available online coupons.
Re:Reversing Safeway's private APIs to automate coupon colle... by SamuelAdams on Monday October 14, 2019 @04:20PM (#21252425)
Right but now Safeway will update something that will cause this to break, and now people who use this super handy app will expect the maintainer to update it - even if it was just a one-off project that the original developer had no interest in maintaining.

So now people will complain and your inbox is flooded with "please fix this" because people feel entitled when all you really wanted to do was just try some cool thing.