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And they're poor.

• dreix 8y ago
  I am poor therefore I write my own software.
  • thrownblown 8y ago
    I don't understand down votes. I often will see the price of an API (cough Google maps) and roll my own solution.
    • sokoloff 8y ago
      An independent developer capable of making a replacement for the entire Google maps API on their own probably isn’t likely to remain poor for long.
      • jcadam 8y ago
        Creating an API isn't that hard. Crafting system architecture to handle a reasonable amount of load isn't that hard nowadays either. But where the heck am I supposed to get all the data?
        • sokoloff 8y ago
          > But where the heck am I supposed to get all the data? That’s exactly my point. Making a full replacement for an API (endpoint) is much more than writing some swagger.
        • chippy 8y ago
          openstreetmap in this example!
• jcadam 8y ago
  I know what you mean. One of my previous projects was a homeschool tracking SaaS. Even at $5/month people were complaining about the price and I never got more than a dozen subscribers. In the end I shut it down (while keeping an instance running on a home server for my own use) because it was barely breaking even and wasn't worth the headache.