Building a home agent, dev warns apps are closing APIs and chatbot ads face no scrutiny
mimi10v3 · x · 2026-11-10
A developer building a personal home agent reports that long-used apps are shutting off data and API access—free apps can't monetize storing your exercise, spending, and listening history. This pushes her toward self-hosted open-source alternatives so her agent can access her data.
She raises two broader concerns:
- Most people won't self-host, and even she lags behind, feeling she's accruing "data debt" ahead of an inevitable migration to whatever solution emerges.
- There's been too little public discourse on ads served via chatbots: is Claude recommending the best product, or the one whose description best fits its favorite frames and metaphors?
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