It is not until half way through that one realises . . . > "The only non-standard challenge presented by this project is the need to develop screen-scraping re

It is not until half way through that one realises . . . > "The only non-standard challenge presented by this project is the need to develop screen-scraping regular expressions for individual online communities that are run on custom software." . . . that the whole idea has a notable form: a simple, mundane problem, hiding a big, hard problem. If you could solve the hard problem you would think you could do much more than help Joe Average with photography and flying. > "This can be done on-demand." It is perhaps a test of one's bias: from a business viewpoint, you probably would not think anything of it, but technically it is naggingly unsatisfactory. It would be a great idea if it found some neat shortcut for the big hard problem that happened to specially fit the particular mundane problem . . .