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by sejje 4334 days ago
Driving. I want to be able to look out the windows or work or whatever I want to do.

Power. I'm so tired of my devices running out of juice. Road trips and festivals etc become much less fun when I have to continually worry about how to charge my phone or laptop.

Craigslist: They shut down services like padmapper but continue to give us a totally shit interface to work with. Finding a place to live, in particular, is a horrific experience.

Vehicle maintenance: I don't want to think about when to change my oil, or when I can take it to the shop, or anything. I'd like to just pay someone who comes to my house and deals with it as-needed.

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The vehicle maintenance one would be great - have an odb device that connects via bluetooth to your device, and knows when to schedule oil changes, or handle more complex issues.
Or... just pay someone to check it once a month for you, like you might have a gardener or cleaner come round to your house. Not everything needs a high tech solution.
+1 to driving. It feels like such a waste of potentially productive time. You can't even use it to think out complex problems, because you have to pay attention to, yknow, driving.
How does craiglist shut down a service like padmapper?
Cease and desist.

If you're arguing that they can't actually shut them down, I get that--but they denied access to their data. That's my major complaint--padmapper put a nice UI layer on craigslist data and they made them turn it off.