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This is where I personally believe we need to think about business models differently. It's very easy to just assume things based on per request pricing or crea
by asim 5y ago
This is where I personally believe we need to think about business models differently. It's very easy to just assume things based on per request pricing or creating some form of subscription but often it's just limiting growth of the product. Social found a way to grow consumer use by finding the buyer on the other side. We're hoping to find something similar for APIs.
- nicoburns 5y agoSo you're considering selling the data of people who use your APIs? You may want to advertise that more prominently. FWIW, I'd much rather pay for them and wouldn't even consider using APIs with such a business model. I guess you may find a market for it for non-business use.
- asim 5y agoI didn't say we'd do advertising. I said social found a business model where the buyer was on the other side. The point is that there are many companies who want to offer APIs or want us to leverage their infrastructure who we can potentially partner with. Pricing models aside. I think there is some value to a core set of free APIs which we haven't really seen from a single provider like this. Maybe it just ends up with some liberal request limits, I'm not sure but as a user I know I'd not want to be limited by it and most likely pay in a team or company setting.