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christmaspizzaon APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

Is there an ongoing trend of sketchy "OSS" product offerings using this same website layout and similar fake quotes from users? I feel like I'm seeing this a lot recently.

edit: through "product hunt"?

further edit: looks like this isn't new: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29864157 maybe it's just gotten worse and I've noticed it or its "products" in my feeds recently

christmaspizzaon APITable: open-source Airtable alternative

Is there an ongoing trend of sketchy "OSS" product offerings using this same website layout and similar fake quotes from users? I feel like I'm seeing this a lot recently.

christmaspizzaon AI chatbots are not a replacement for search engines

Yeah this is a weird take. Chat bots are improving rapidly, increasingly used in real applications. With more targeted applications, like a "search engine" for coding, I could see these being very powerful. It's weird to write an article discounting that based on how the current ChatGPT application, a research beta, operates and throwing out some fear-based morality.