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I’m actually surprised the API access lasted for so long. The person that provisioned it is probably long gone from Yelp. Similarly, the company’s values and pr

• ratg13 2y ago
  If you work for a company and decide that people using 100 API calls per day, hurts your company more than helps it.. then most likely you are either unqualified for making these decisions, or the service in question was built poorly from the start. There is little room to blame behavior like this on bad actors and not bad decision making. 10s of thousands of companies have managed to figure out combatting API abuse without shooting themselves in the foot.
  • creesch 2y ago
    > If you work for a company and decide that people using 100 API calls per day, hurts your company more than helps it.. then most likely you are either unqualified for making these decisions You are entirely right, yet I see this train of thought happen so very often in different companies. Some of these people are a bit saner than others and actually do listen to others explaining why it is an idiotic train of thought. Others really are just see numbers in isolation and somehow refuse to look at them in context.
  • sethammons 2y ago
    How much money should yelp spend to help Restaurants continue to work?