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Originally Posted by GGCO
When you say TFA looks like a hobby project, what do you mean by that?
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I mean that it looks like you're paying for it out of your own pocket, or you're running it on a free service somewhere which likely won't handle the load when it becomes non-trivial. Anything that costs money to sustain and doesn't have a planned way to at least recoup operating costs qualifies as a hobby to me. End-user sites, like TBA and CD, can use advertising if needed to help defray the cost of hosting. You can't do that when your primary product is an API, unless you charge people to access the API which you have not indicated that you are doing. So, it comes back to my question of how are you going to pay for it when it gets busy enough that you need to run multiple servers and load balancers and such. Are you prepared to foot a $100+ bill per month yourself? If so, for how long?
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Originally Posted by GGCO
The economics of this are a bit sketchy.
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Originally Posted by mobilegamer999
if it got a good rep and people were using it, I would have no issue continuing to pay for the hosting.
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Originally Posted by mobilegamer999
I am going to say that as long as people are still visiting/using the site, I will continue to keep it up.
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These quotes should be major red flags for anyone considering developing against your API. You're admitting that it costs money to run, you're paying for it yourself, and basically you'll keep running it "if it gets a good rep and people are using it". That's not much of a guarantee to someone considering investing 100s of hours in developing an app against this API.