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The fundamental function of the site can now be vibecoded in a day, so now has no value. The daily visitors are the only unused item of value remaining.

I await your repo tomorrow, then! I'd be happy to use an alternative with all backfilled playercount data and sales history that hasn't been sold out.

SteamDB is itself a massive collection of data - on pricing, game usage, etc. Scraped over years, in a way that Valve tolerate.

It could not be vibecoded in a day unless you want to hallucinate the data, which makes the site useless.

In fact, if the techbros actually tried, they'd force Valve into putting up anti-scraping countermeasures on all their APIs within hours.

The fundamental function is already on GitHub: https://github.com/steamre/steamkit

That only leaves the remaining 99.9% of work. Good luck.

that's optimistic

Go ahead and do it just to prove a point.

The value is in the contributed art.

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