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I guess, we should not believe google anymore.. I had built this little website that uses google's shopping api - http://www.shoop.in/ http://www.shoop.in/ .. A

by machbio 13y ago

I guess, we should not believe google anymore.. I had built this little website that uses google's shopping api - http://www.shoop.in/ http://www.shoop.in/ .. All effort wasted, I should have seen what was coming..

_RPM 13y ago
Would you be comfortable sharing the traffic numbers on your site?
- machbio 13y ago
  Its not huge...
notatoad 13y ago
What do you mean, you shouldn't believe google? they said they were going to shut it down, and they're shutting it down. you can believe that. if you mean you shouldn't trust google to maintain APIs forever, then yes. of course you shouldn't. you shouldn't build any product entirely on top of an API you don't have an SLA and lifespan guarantee for. doing so is irresponsible and unfair to your users, and when a free and un-promised API shuts down and breaks your product, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
- machbio 13y ago
  As an Individual Developer - i cant be building the whole backend.. anyways the Gigaom article talks about the alternatives who are for profit.. will likely be trying them