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I did the same thing long (well, not that long) ago for my school’s system too: https://github.com/saagarjha/break. In retrospect this was an excellent use of time because when I made this I barely knew what JSON was and ended up reimplementing some protocols from scratch (HTTP basic auth, WebDAV) that I learned much later were actually standardized and I had actually known them all along ;) Alas, the service got bought out by some vulture/bodyshop PE firm and the app ended up outliving the servers it was hitting. But until then I got a lot of great email from high school kids telling me how much I improved their experience or asking if they could build their own thing on the APIs they found in my app after trawling GitHub.



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