Show HN: CLI to order groceries via reverse-engineered REWE API (Haskell)

Post by rmoriz » Fri, Apr 03, 2026, 5:35 PM UTC

traceroute66 wrote: post #61

Bewelge wrote: post #53

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> Might I suggest you remove your tin-foil hat and consider that: First up: Read and follow the rules. No need to insult me. Especially considering what you said shows that you both misunderstood AND misrepresented what I've said. And frankly, my reasoning was simply saying "Company won't publicize internal info if they don't get an advantage from doing so". It's literally the same reason Google doesn't publish all o…

> Opening an API to the public allows third parties to develop apps that can then be consumed by end-consumers. Not trying to be offensive here, but do you know what an API is? To conclude I meant every single end-consumers building their own app is at best disingenuously twisting my words. Here you are wrong too. If you want to develop an app via an API that is only offered B2B, what do you do ? Yes, that's right ..…

Post by atollk » Sat, Apr 04, 2026, 7:05 AM UTC

wazHFsRy wrote: post #91

atollk wrote: post #90

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That's a good idea and actually was my first thought too. I sent a chat message so the product owner in charge is aware of the interest in something like it. I think a big issue here is the lack of standard - there is no established way of where an MCP server should be hosted so that agents are easily able to find it. Right now, the best solution I could think of would be to serve it at something like rewe.de/shop/mc…

Nice thank you. If something came out of this that would be amazing. I am not the biggest fan of mcp, as they are a waste of tokens though. I shot you a message on LinkedIn as well, was wondering if this caused some discussion internally at Rewe because it was immediately blocked.