Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations
Uploaded on 1 December 2013
One day I found myself looking at it and noticed that as soon as restaurant reservations became available on the website (at 4am), all the good times were immediately taken and were gone by 4:01am. It quickly became obvious that these were reservation bots at work. After a while even cancellations started being taken immediately from under me. It started being common receiving an email alerting of a change, seeing an available time, and it being gone by the time the website loaded. You fight fire with fire, so I made my own reservation bot.