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Poll: which browsing activity annoys you the most. I'll help you to automate it

I'm single founder and it's my second post on HN.Here's what I dohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2848067(I've took http://www.clickgrab.net , so the credit goes to geekfactor. Thank you for the great name!)To make my talk with VCs solid, I want to open private beta ASAPI target HNers and other geeks as early adopters. So the poll.* What is your most annoying web activity?* How much valuable...

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Yes, we are going to open source our technology to some extent.

First candidate is a bunch of Lisp macros and functions which allows me to write Chrome extensions quickly

We are planning to let you compile/publish/"download as" your script to standalone Google App, Ruby on Rails application, whatever. We have not come up with specific backends to support. This feature is under discussion at the moment. ;-)

geekfactor, please contact me so I can shape this to fit your needs better

Re:Ask HN: Rate name for our startup or propose your variant! on Thursday August 04, 2011 @06:56PM (#2848147)
In specialist's circles such software is known as web scrapers, ants, web spiders and crawlers.

I took an ant and made an anology with the turtle Logo graphics.

Imagine an ant which surfs the web for you given you provided the ant with the script of where actually to go and which data to harvest there

Ask HN: Rate name for our startup or propose your variant!

We want to bring web tasks automation to everyone.* You will create your first script in 15 minutes using drag and drop right in the browser.* There is absolutely no requirement to know how web works!* Afterwards, you can schedule the script to be run on our server or you can try it from your browser.* You also can share scripts with your friends on our market place!Technically, we target...

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