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   by asim 5y ago

   People may want to not only read but build apps, websites, include the text, translate, etc. So it's more about programmatic access to the text. If you see Quran.com this is exactly what it does.
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   by asim 5y ago

   It is free yes
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   Quran API(m3o.com)

   185 points by asim 5y ago|166 comments
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   Leveraging Micro APIs Through Nocode(blog.m3o.com)

   2 points by asim 5y ago|0 comments
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   by asim 5y ago

   I spent 6+ years fighting this exact battle. It's hard. It's resource intensive. And timing is everything. It requires either one company to front all the development cost and bring it to the world after validating it or it needs
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   by asim 5y ago

   I 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
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   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
8. 848.▲
   by asim 5y ago

   Sorry for that. We had quite a bit of interest from people wanting to offer APIs and this just fell through and we tried to evaluate how we were going to do this right now.
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   by asim 5y ago

   Hey all. The founder of Micro here . Micro is a public API platform that puts APIs for everyday use all in one place. One account, one api token, simple, fast and easy to use. We surfaced on Hackernews maybe 6-8 weeks ago with some really
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    Show HN: Micro – A public API platform (now free during beta)(m3o.com)

    25 points by asim 5y ago|7 comments
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    by asim 5y ago

    Reminds me of https://nocodeapi.com/
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    Discord has won over gamers. Now it wants everybody else(ft.com)

    3 points by asim 5y ago|0 comments
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    by asim 5y ago

    Also see https://public-apis.io for a similar searchable listing of APIs.
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    Public APIs – A collective list of more than 1000 Free Public APIs(public-apis.io)

    3 points by asim 5y ago|0 comments
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    by asim 5y ago

    Hey all Micro is new public API platform we launched, in beta, around 3-4 weeks ago here on HN -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27619015 . The feedback was super positive but one point that kept coming up was the p
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    Show HN: Micro – APIs for everyday use (update)(m3o.com)

    1 points by asim 5y ago|1 comments
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    by asim 5y ago

    That was a live read-only replica which we were able to switch to within 20-30 mins of the issue. Then snapshotted that and restored to the master later that night. The CTO was on holiday at the time so writing that email to him was brutal.
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    by asim 5y ago

    $ rm -rf /var/mysql/data *Thinks for 5 seconds...is this prod? ....@$1£!? ... ctrl + c....should I tell anyone that just happened....walks over to line manager...* I did not taste anything that day.
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks for the questioning. I'll do my best to answer. 1. How do you trust any startup is going to be around in the future? You can't know for sure, but something about the product calls out to you. Luckily all our services are &q
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    by asim 5y ago

    Because we don't want to do the hard work. We tried it already. We initially started by managing all our own infrastructure, building our own APIs from the ground up and it turns out that's really hard. If anything we can never ma
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks! Let us know if it ends up being used at your college :)
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    by asim 5y ago

    Free tier was something we've had previously but it became hard to justify because of our third party integrations and what it costs us. It might be something we try figure out in the future. Thanks for the feedback.
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    by asim 5y ago

    Hey we don't yet have one to publicly share but will happily put one up if more people are interested with potentially user ranked priority so we get to the most requested ones first.
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks for that. It really comes down to the target audience. We have a lot API builder like platforms. In fact this is what Micro was before ( https://m3o.dev ) but it turns out that's not really what a lot of people want. T
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks for that feedback. Optional table name just means you get a default table which is literally called "default". We left out namespace in the kv API just to keep things simple but I'll take that feedback onboard and thin
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks for the feedback on pricing. Yea we understand the initial cost on some APIs might seem high in aggregate but what you see is what you get. Unlike AWS who bill you in aggregate across storage, egress, etc, we only have one cost - the
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    by asim 5y ago

    Thanks for the positive feedback! What's that 5% you feel is missing? We'd obviously love to build it and make sure we've got everything covered. A couple on my list are a message queue and probably the ability to run apps in
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    by asim 5y ago

    Hey there. We've got you covered. Here's our user service that includes user management and authentication https://m3o.com/user
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    by asim 5y ago

    Hi, yes this is the end goal and for it to be entirely self service. For now we're working directly with those third parties and doing the integration ourselves but ideally we want to let people do it themselves, display their own logo
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    by asim 5y ago

    Good. We're taking all of July off at my company. Why? Because covid was an incredibly hard period for all of us and we as humans need a break. Somehow we all just seem to expect things to keep going like nothing changed. We all just s