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I'm hoping that, over time, the community will weed out the good articles from the bad.
There is also the problem of using ids. For example in Flutter I may want to auto tweet out the top post in a list of posts on a blog. If the posts have individual ids, and the CSS selector includes them, every time Flutter tries to scrape new content it will get the same post. I want the unique selector for the page element. i.e. the first post in the list.
Do you have any advice?
Out of interest, were you working in a manufacturing position when you wrote the software for your business or did you spot the opportunity from the outside?
Flutter makes it possible to tweet out, on a recurring schedule, any dynamic content on the web. On a previous project, I wanted to automatically tweet out the oil price on a recurring schedule. Yes, I could have built a one-off solution for this but I thought it might be cool to make it a generic reusable tool. I think it has some potential as a type of growth hacking / social media automation tool but would like to see what everyone else thinks.
I ended turning this problem into a side project (leanlab.io) which you could checkout ;). I also know that Javelin are doing something similar with experiments (experiments.javelin.com).
I'm at a stage where I've worked for a significant amount of time on one project outside work that hasn't really been successful. I'm now working on a few things and trying to validate the ideas with customers before building them out properly.