You will probably run into a healthy mix of "that's cool" / "I did that before you!" / "but how will it make money?". Ignore it and do your thing. If you figure out how to monetize it, great! Even if you don't or if you have no desire to, you will have learned and grown during the course of the project. That is invaluable.
Have fun and screw the haters...
Maybe I'm just jealous or something, but it rubs me the wrong way.
We're meant to be an inclusive community of smart people. The idea is we'll encourage the poster and offer constructive criticism (or praise).
If the post is useful to no one, it simply won't get discussed or upvoted. When something does, it's validated as an idea, or as something of interest.
Plenty of mediocre stuff gets to the frontpage and plenty of gems fall through the cracks.
I was trying to implement a Firefox add-on which navigates the web based on speech for my senior project (the theme was assistive technology). The major blocker with developing any tools to help navigate web page despite some effort in ARIA is that there are so many actions one cannot parse nor do without writing custom code for every single website. i.e. how can you tell where the login button is? what to click? frankly if you look at Gmail the DOM was a huge huge compressed mess (names all rewrote, without gmail.js I wouldn't be able to get Gmail working in my project). If every website exposes a standard set of APIs that can reduce the barrier by a good percentage. So think of combinging HATEOS from REST and this. Here we turn things into JSON with href allowing a client to navigate, sort of a first step making a website more "web client" compatible... funny is it?
this.get(html, selector, function(s){
var es = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html').querySelectorAll(selector);
return [].slice.call(es).map(function(n){ return n.innerText });
};
This is basically a subset of "I did that before you!"
- mentions the term that this concept falls under (no where on the OP's page, so he may not know that there is an entire set of software, plugins, etc that does this)
- provides one alternative implementation
- adds commentary related to why such services are necessary, and that they should be able to be monetized
So yes, he starts off with something along the lines of "I did that before you!", but he doesn't use a condescending phrase, and he provides additional useful information.