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I've had some luck with this too. Every device you buy wants you install an app on your phone. Not if I can help it.

Wish I could release the apps I've "made", but worry about DMCA

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> Every device you buy wants you install an app on your phone. Not if I can help it.

That sounds interesting. What's the usual approach, install the app in some emulator or something, and ask your agent to reverse engineer it? Or is the setup for the agent to work simpler than that?

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yes pretty much, spin up a vm, run your coding agent of choice and ask it to reverse engineer whatever part of the app you need. You dont need to setup the emulation sandbox or even download the app, agent can take care of that.
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Use pseudonym and when you get DMCA request, you take it down...
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Its a lot of work to actually be anonymous, use a clean browser, vpn, tor, etc... It's too easy to slip up.
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Just release it under a pseudonym. The worst they will do is force it off GitHub! Don't redistribute the firmware files if you're really concerned. I am also sort of struggling with this idea so I get where you're coming from.
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