throwaway11004

Who guarantees protection of consumer rights if not the state? Again, I'm not saying it's a bad thing.

People mentioned farmers in your sibling comments, are those consumers? I thought they are not.

Who's we?

Most apps nowadays have a mobile app, so you need the API anyways...

If only the government didn't make it so hard that it's feasible only for large companies. This guy is way too small-time to do that as a business.

The HN search is a demo/advertisement of Algolia search engine that they run for free. They can update it even if you didn't need any updates.