[ludbb]

I assume I'm jealous for a project that brings nothing new compared to so many other solutions and still grabs 76 stars (as I write this). It seems, after all, github stars are another way to say "I'm popular" and not so much that a project is good.

[vonklaus]

That is a pretty rude comment and I would def. argue it reflects a pretty narrow view of the world. I think the project is alright and it looks quite useful if you need something to curl a site, check something, and blast an e-mail (essentially your own ITTT).

To the point I'm jealous for a project that brings nothing new compared to so many other solutions, I suspect the author of the program needed to call up a website check for an event and get notified; s/he probably found this to be the motivation for building this much more than getting github stars. Other people found it useful as well, and maybe it is easier for people to grep this implementation and build on it than other crawlers.

Most broadly, bitcoin combines a lot of well understood and older technologies into something completely knew. It seems this was your gripe, the project didn't do that. I just want to point out complex coordination and reorganization of current libraries/practices/technologies can be quite useful, novel and interesting.

edit: I actually concur with the above post a bit more now. I do think things done in Go get a but over hyped and if this is what parent was referring to, I suspect s/he was correct even if a bit prickly in expressing it.

[jgrahamc]

I'm surprised this is popular. It was just a quick thing I wrote to solve a specific problem that mattered a lot.