Ukrainian developer creates tool "to detect problematic smartphone before purchase"
Senior Golang Developer Yaroslav Podorvanov created a website for testing smartphones before buying after he got burned with his own gadget.
Senior Golang Developer Yaroslav Podorvanov created a website for testing smartphones before buying after he got burned with his own gadget.
According to the developer, the site will be useful for those who plan to buy a new smartphone for themselves or their loved ones in the near future. It will allow you to check the gadget for known problems described in reviews on Reddit before purchasing.
"I created the site after I got burned with my Samsung Galaxy A36 smartphone due to the presence of the AppCloud application, which behaves like a Trojan. This problem is common and known for Samsung smartphones," the developer said on Reddit.
To check, you need to enter the name of the smartphone and the site will generate a prompt to check for existing problems.
The site has open source code, and the prompt used to create it is also available.
"The prompt generated by the site was written by AI based on my criteria. Together with ChatGPT, I wrote a large prompt — a task, which I then passed on to Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and again to ChatGPT, so that each generated their own version of the site. Gemini did the best," Podorvanov noted.
Currently, not all models are listed on the site, but over time, the IT expert will expand the list.
“In order to find smartphone problems, you need to purposefully Google specific problems, and you are unlikely to find the ones that will be decisive for you to refuse to buy. More likely, you will find some complimentary “problems” from bloggers and sites. When there is a lot of marketing in a niche, for example, “smartphones” or “free online IT courses for beginners,” Google gives almost solid marketing on the first page, but ChatGPT does not,” the IT expert explained the choice of Reddit.
Podorvanov added that he spent 3.5 hours creating the site. This is a non-commercial project, so the developer's main goal was "to make the site exist for free, without a server and without my support. Therefore, if you make some kind of dynamic smartphone preview, you need an API, and if it's static, you need to regularly update the images on the site."
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