[manyxcxi]

I stumbled on to the Java API a day or two after the launch and that was actually the first time I'd downloaded and run the Pokemon Go app. It was funny that writing code against the Niantic API was actually WAY more interesting than the game for me.

A week or two of playing around with it was all I needed to satiate my interest but it was a pretty neat thought excercise to avoid bans and come up with different strategies for maximizing XP gains and making the bot make better decisions and take efficient paths to high value areas.

The annoying thing was wading through slack and discord channels of people who had no clue what was going on but were pissed that their bots weren't working or that we weren't providing compiled binaries.

[flocial]

I had a similar experience.

But at the same time, it was exciting to think that some of those people screaming for free technical assistance were getting their first taste of programming via running bots.