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It sounds like you had an obviously valuable service that if you had sold, could potentially pay for itself, why was the instinct not to create a paid version o
by hardwaresofton 11y ago
It sounds like you had an obviously valuable service that if you had sold, could potentially pay for itself, why was the instinct not to create a paid version of the API?
If you can't find enough people to pay for it, then shut it down, but if you can, then you have a solid business. Of course, you'd still have to take down the public API (since it would be no longer free, and grew unsustainable), but...
- daviross 11y agoWhy does everything have to be monetized? It seems pretty clear from the article that they spun up a test project until they didn't want to, and they provided a whole two weeks more lead-time than they needed to on taking it down. I'm not sure why there's this expectation that someone should do a bunch more work for something they wanted to kill off, just for the sake of monetization.