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500px will no longer be offering free access to our API
- ckdarby 8y agoI'll take a stab at this... Hey, the company that acquired us isn't seeing the ROI they wished. We have struggled to grow the company correctly. We're "shutting" down the API, but email sales and we'll continue to give you the same shutdown API just at a fee.
- pmlnr 8y agoAPI access for a fee is ok, but email sales? Not even an approximation about fee online?
- anoncoward111 8y agoThis is a vestige of the old business culture in the USA. "We have to tailor the solution to your needs, there's no way we could give you an accurate price before you have a conversation with us!" aka we're charging arbitrarily high prices
- sscarduzio 8y agoGenerally speaking I agree, but there is still some legit cases where pre sales is needed. I.e. when you are a hybrid service/product company and good part of your value proposition is product customisation/integration.
- anoncoward111 8y agoI agree with you :) It's not too easy to scope every project properly when there's lot of human billable hours involved. But I imagine this isn't one of those situations!
- sonnyblarney 8y agoHas nothing to do with 'the USA', and price discrimination/negotiation is not 'arbitrary' - or at least any more arbitrary than negotiating a price at a flea market.
- ktosobcy 8y agoone of the most annoying things ever - recently I had to waddle through services offering VoIP solutions (phone support, IVR) and quite a lot of them had only 'contact sales' option... and most of the time they came up with astronomical prices...
- anoncoward111 8y agoI cannot wait for the day they either change their practices or go out of business.
- nwrk 8y agoOther stab: https://iso.500px.com/500px-getty-images-new-partnership/ https://iso.500px.com/500px-getty-images-new-partnership/ The GettyImages licensing change involve some legal and backend changes. Jaj VCG.....
- sam0x17 8y agoSo I guess chromecasts won't have nice wallpapers anymore? Many were from 500px, which is how I even discovered 500px.
- Latteland 8y agoThe linked webpage says this changed happened in Jan 2018. 2018, not 2019. No one even noticed the difference. So I don't think there were many chromecasts using it. I use chromecasts, they are still showing pretty pictures.
- Nullabillity 8y ago> If you have an existing API key, you will lose access on June 15th 2018. You can email sales@500px.com to discuss further usage of the API.
- sam0x17 8y agoIn any case, this is a stupid move. I would have never heard of them if it weren't for the free API.
- peterbraden 8y agoI guess I'll be leaving 500px then...