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I think that the biggest problem is that people don't know for what to use things like that. Here at HN population is smart and they will know what and how. But
by B-Scan 16y ago
I think that the biggest problem is that people don't know for what to use things like that. Here at HN population is smart and they will know what and how. But if you like to catch broader developer population I think it will be great to provide separate APIs for things like sentiment analysis, comment spam analysis, images or any other concrete problem solution. If you have a platform, why not to simplify all and solve someones pain.
Ofcourse, general API will also have an audience, but on this way you will separate yourself from players like Google.
- ma2rten 16y agoI have been thinking about this as well, but the problem is that but the problem is that people how are completely clueless probably also need some consulting, which would make it scale badly. So I though maybe, as long as Google is the only player, the best way in the first place is to focus on the 'smart' developers and later set up almost sort of franchise system, where people create services for specific applications and my start up provides the infrastructure.