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Originally Posted by GGCO
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.
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I never said anything like that. I have no idea of the quality of your work, and have no reason to assume that it's not wonderful. My simple point is that when providing an API to other apps, the other apps become dependent on you. Your decisions affect them. If you're running an end-user website and decide to take it away sometime, that sucks for the community but it doesn't really invalidate anyone else's work. If you take away an API that others are accessing with apps that they spent considerable effort to create, then you're harming them.
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Originally Posted by GGCO
As far as sustainability goes, we're going to implement ads soon to help recoup our costs.
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You've been pitching this as primarily an API service. How are you going to run ads on an API service? Or, from a different perspective: you keep pointing out how anyone could duplicate your website using your API. If you put ads on your website, wouldn't someone else just duplicate the site without the ads, causing people to use that instead (since people obviously prefer sites without ads)? Or worse, they put their own ads on it and pocket the profits while you're footing the bill for the grunt work of collecting the data.
I'm not trying to offend anyone, I'm simply trying to point out some of the real-world issues that crop up after the enjoyment of creating it wears off (which it will, I promise). Things that start out as a fun side project can turn into an annoyance faster than you'd think. Pretty soon you'll find that instead of getting praise for an awesome tool, you'll just get complaints about "why doesn't it have feature x" and "when are you going to support y" or "it's down, how soon is it going to be back up?". Instead of being grateful, there's a lot of people out there who just expect you to provide more and more things for them, for free.