I co-built/run Theneeds [1] for about 5y. We shut it down during the acquisition. In our case, we weren't sad or anything because the website was "just a fronte

I co-built/run Theneeds [1] for about 5y. We shut it down during the acquisition. In our case, we weren't sad or anything because the website was "just a frontend" to the recommendation engine, that was in fact the IP that we sold. As a counter strategy to avoid shut down, I'm building most of my projects on free hosting/api. Of course very limited functionality. Examples: Has Gluten [2], personal dashboard for cryptos [3]. Despite this, I had a project [4] shutting down due to Runkeeper suddenly turning off their API access. I still run on avg 1mi/day, and I had to go back to manual/spreadsheet counting in 2018. [1] http://theneeds.com http://theneeds.com [2] http://hasgluten.com http://hasgluten.com [3] http://priceeth.github.io http://priceeth.github.io [4] https://github.com/runwithmark/runwithmark.github.io https://github.com/runwithmark/runwithmark.github.io