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There was a subthread on HN not too long ago from a guy who quit his day job to scale ipinfo.io, which sells an API subscription product for geoIP lookups. He's
by bjacobel 10y ago
There was a subthread on HN not too long ago from a guy who quit his day job to scale ipinfo.io, which sells an API subscription product for geoIP lookups. He's doing fairly well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13328971
So I think there is a market for services like this, especially since API Gateway takes away a lot of the kinds of scaling headaches the creator talks about in the linked post.
- dirtyaura 10y agoI'd say that ipinfo.io sells data, just through an API. Building a data set is expensive and takes time. Pure API plays are harder, I think.