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Ask HN: What's your favorite exit strategy from a webapp
I'm implementing the exit strategy for a web app so a user can export all his data from the service and move on.
I've seen some apps provide a way to do this via an API, a XML file.. even a dump from the DB.
If you were to export your data from a web app what would you prefer?
note: the app is an enterprise-level CRM solution.
- amarcus 15y agoWhy not all the above? You can hack up a quick library (or find one online) that will take the output of a query and output in the selected format. Not sure what framework/language you are using but, something like this can be very easily done using PHPs inbuilt functions (ie: get from db and store in array..then output array as XML or JSON etc...).
- dexcs 15y agoOpen Source as many parts as possible and provide private data to your customers. I think the data format is less important than good documentation of how to use it again.
- zarroba 15y agoThanks for your reply. Haven't thought about providing documentation about that, just adding an option to do it. I don't mind to write tutorials on how to export the client's data to competing services...