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Zach Cohen's avatar

Reverse-engineering APIs is a tech band-aid, not a strategy. It's like trying to tune a piano with a hammer. Legal ramifications aside, it's an unsustainable approach. Seen too many startups crash this way.

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Luan Doan's avatar

Great breakdown! I used to use this technique for some of my old projects. The only problem with this approach is that if we want to create apps or workflows to sell, like in your example to help manage Substack: users need to provide a cookie, which they may be afraid to do due to security risks. But aside from that concern, we can create a lot of useful things to help grow Substack newsletters more effectively.

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