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I've been using AskGeo for about 10 months and am very happy with it. Does exactly what I need. I am surprised to see it's now $200/year. What I signed up AskG
by FigBug 15y ago
I've been using AskGeo for about 10 months and am very happy with it. Does exactly what I need. I am surprised to see it's now $200/year.
What I signed up AskGeo said:
Is this free?
Yes, for now. We built this for internal use and this site doesn't cost
us much, so we don't intend to charge unless usage takes off. If we do
charge, it will be to cover costs, not because we think we're going to
make it big selling access to a lat/lon to time zone API. So for now it
is free and it is likely to remain so for a long while.
The pricing change has not been communicated to existing users, I was not aware of it until this story had been posted. I'm not sure if they get grandfathered or not. I'm doing about 1 request a day, $200 seems expensive.
- epc 15y agoThey appear to be charging for commercial use only. What do you think a reasonable fee would be?
- MichaelApproved 15y agoThey seem to be too busy with another project to implement another payment system[1] but maybe you can email them and directly offer a smaller amount of money for a commercial license since your usage is so limited. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636020 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636020
- jrd79 15y agoI am the developer. Yes, please contact us if your usage is low but you are commercial. I'm sure we can figure something out that is fair.
- sinzone 15y agoTry this alternative: http://www.mashape.com/apis/World+Time+Engine+-+Free http://www.mashape.com/apis/World+Time+Engine+-+Free Up to 200 calls/day for free. This API can be used to search by coordinates, IP Addresses and place names to get the most accurate current local times for a given place.