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tencentshilltoday at 5:29 PM5 repliesview on HN

The fundamental function of the site can now be vibecoded in a day, so now has no value. The daily visitors are the only unused item of value remaining.


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Banditoztoday at 6:01 PM

I await your repo tomorrow, then! I'd be happy to use an alternative with all backfilled playercount data and sales history that hasn't been sold out.

amiga386today at 6:01 PM

SteamDB is itself a massive collection of data - on pricing, game usage, etc. Scraped over years, in a way that Valve tolerate.

It could not be vibecoded in a day unless you want to hallucinate the data, which makes the site useless.

In fact, if the techbros actually tried, they'd force Valve into putting up anti-scraping countermeasures on all their APIs within hours.

whatevaatoday at 7:58 PM

Go ahead and do it just to prove a point.

bjordtoday at 5:42 PM

that's optimistic

pathartltoday at 6:04 PM

The value is in the contributed art.