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What’s the Hardest Part of Building for the Web Right Now?

I’m curious.. what’s the hardest part of building for the web right now?

For me, it’s making AI and web data work reliably together.

My avatar typing on a laptop

I’m currently working on a web scraping project and exploring how to make web data more accessible and useful for AI agents, especially when dealing with dynamic pages, blocked requests, and messy data 😅

What’s something you’ve been struggling with lately while building?
Would love to hear from other developers.

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csm •

css. no matter what comes, its still a thing I can't deal with! (btw am no working dev)

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Ellie •

Haha!! CSS really has a way of making things harder than they need to be , what part of CSS gives you the most trouble?

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csm •

Responsive design and positioning 😭

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Ellie •

This pain is real 😭 Responsive design is a whole battle

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Alexandr Kazmin •

for me it's that "blocked" isn't one thing :) a captcha, a throttle page that returns 200, a page that never finishes loading - they need different fixes, and most scrapers report all of them as "no results". half my debugging time goes into figuring out which one I actually hit 🙃

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Ellie •

Yeah, that’s so true🙃 We’re actually working on this too, especially the CAPTCHA and blocking side of things. It’s not fully solved yet, hope this feature will live soon. It’s free right now if you want to give it a try!

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