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by sebestindragos 836 days ago
That makes sense in theory, but I'm not sure most people would bother reading the source code. Regarding your IP banning concerns, since the app only scrapes the links you save it's just like you would manually refresh them in Chrome so don't think this would be an issue (no data to back this up tho, other than my own PC which is running the app continuously and has a ton of links saved for testing).

I made it a desktop app to avoid needing to run expensive cloud resources for scraping (which also includes IP proxies to get around bot detection limits). This would have meant a higher cost for the end user, which I absolutely did not want since it's targeting also unemployed people.

A lot of people have had that complaint and I'm considering building a cloud version with a higher price point, but not a priority right now.