OK, I think an app this simple doesn't need funding, specially in a world where people die of starvation and malaria. Yet all I get for my observation is downvotes.
You didn't mention that you thought the app was simple. You said you thought running crowdfunding for it was dishonest and immoral.
In any case... Parsing 35TB of HTML, JavaScript and images, and then releasing that as structured data, on top of rebuilding a sustainable web service? I don't think it is simple at all. It's not exactly a hackathon project.
I think we can debate that point, but what I can't understand is the reason behind the downvotes. Downvoting prevents the debate entirely, and I find it unreasonable.
Your first comment said "I find it dishonest and immoral". You should have followed that sentence with some explanation about why you felt it was dishonest or immoral. Perhaps you don't realise just how offensive that sentence is?
Some of your later comments say something along the lines of "why pay money for this when people are starving?" Well, you can apply that to everything. What computer are you using right now? Why didn't you buy a €30 raspberry pi and donate the rest to a clean water charity?
Interesting innovative ideas or discussion about developin world problems do get upvotes. Merely saying "why spend on this instead of starving children" will allost always get downvotes because it's not an interesting discussion.
