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Looks to me like procrastination from doing what he actually needs to do. Which is to click on those links to find an apartment. Tech won't solve that.

Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/974/



I partially agree! But atm I’m using the tool a lot, it’s working well and as expected. Let’s say that for the time it took me to develop it was definitely worth it


Good for you! Glad you had some fun.

And you are in the beginning of your career, can just as well post it to make yourself attractive for future employers. Better solve an actual problem that you had than to post some made-up nonsense-projects on Github just because people think you gotta have "a Github" when applying somewhere.


I’d call it more of a variant of the XY problem: https://xyproblem.info/




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