cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/15545986
this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2024
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My mother-in-law is a veterinarian and once she asked me to create an app that would tell people whether a particular animal hospital was a good place to take their pets or not. She thought it was just something I could write in an evening since the UI would be pretty simple. She had no conception of the need for, like, a database of pet hospitals and where that database would come from and how it would be maintained and updated.
Did she want some features that weren't part of Google/Apple maps / Yelp / etc?
If she's frustrated with user reviews being about nonsense I get it but that's a human problem, or at least not a system problem anyone's been able to solve yet.
Yeah, she didn't feel that online reviews were an accurate or reliable way to evaluate these places. She basically thought that every place but her own was a bucket of shit, so I probably could have actually given her what she wanted and just had the app give a thumbs down to everything except hers.