Dave, you misquote me. I was not saying the economics of our service (ie how we're paying for it) are sketchy or that we don't have a plan, rather responding to another member's post.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=96
As far as sustainability goes, we're going to implement ads soon to help recoup our costs. Secondly, we're not using a free service for hosting or our domain name or anything like that. We're paying for it just like anyone else. If you mean our design looks cheap that's one thing, but I don't know how by just looking at the site it gives you a feeling of shoddy work.
Maybe for an app like the Spyder, you'll never give up control and use a third party API. It probably just doesn't make sense for you guys and that's fine. However, we think there are a lot of other developers out there who have great ideas or tools they'd like to build and could really use our API. We're here to help those guys out.