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Develop in House vs Integrate
We're working on a mobile application that provides location based services like cinemas nearby, places, events and deals. I need to decide from now and then, whether to integrate with an API to ...
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Google APIs - what's the story with their licensing?
My new build package features a link with Google maps. However, having had a look at their terms and conditions, I am unsure exactly where I stand with integrating their tools within my chargeable ...
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Accessing MLS info from an API
Are there any applications out there that provide an API for accessing US property listing (MLS) information? Zillow has property information for most of the country but very little listing ...
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Accounting Software a Coder Would Be Happy With?
I'm looking for accounting software a software developer would be happy with.
Available integration with most big US banks.
Ability to submit tax forms electronically.
An API I can call into to send ...
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Is there any issue if my service APIs are very similar to my competitors
We have a web service and offer APIs for customers to integrate and create other customizations. Since following ReSTful design, we found our design eventually are so much alike our competitors. If we ...
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Facebook API policy about storing user data
recently more and more apps appear that retrieve data from Facebook and store it in some form for further processing purposes.
Examples:
www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/02/18.html
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Are there any good monetization strategies for webservice/API providers?
I often have ideas for a webservice ... as in a live internet programming API (Application Programmable Interface) for other websites. Ideally, I'd like to allow access to the API for free in order to ...
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Can I give Google Analytics data to my customers?
Can I give Google Analytics data from the API as a free gift feature to my customers that are paying for a monthly subscription service? Or would this be outside of Googles terms of service.
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how does Billguard or Mint.com get the data from banks? Do banks have some open API?
How is it possible to get the data from the banks? Did they go and talk to each bank and convinced the bank to open a API for them? Or do banks have this API already that they are using and you can ...
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Hotel booking data
Where do the many hotel booking websites get their hotel data? ie. # of free rooms within certain dates, price per night, etc.
Is it possible to get the data somewhere and handle booking myself, ...
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Channels to marketing an API-as-a-product to developers
My company provides a set of API for accessing telecommunication services (kind of like Twilio). The target customers are web developers. They could be indie developers, or companies.
What are some ...
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Security-as-a-Service API business model
We're a small startup company in the web security space. In a nutshell, we have developed a unique approach to scan and detect web threats. After much consideration, we have decided to welcome the ...
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Travel website - 3rd Party Data Integration
I'm creating a travel website that lets users select points of interest for a particular city (a restaurant, museum, etc.). These records are to be displayed on a google map as markers. This I've done ...
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How to find 3rd party app developers for our API?
My company is developing a web application and we are about to release a developers API soon. We would like to promote our API to 3rd party developers so that they develop their own applications ...
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Political Boundaries API [closed]
Does anybody know of a free API to access political boundaries of the US down to the local level? This seems like something that would be a part of Google Maps, but I haven't found anything.
I am ...
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Building a service around external APIs
I am thinking about building a service around some other company APIs. However, prior of diving into some code, I would like to evaluate all the strategic aspects of such a "one way partnership".
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Free ESPs (Email Service Providers) for Tax Exempt Non-Profit organizations?
My Tax Exempt 501(c)(3)non-profit organization is launching a new web application. We will be generating large amounts of emails between our users. We estimate that we will be sending and receiving ...
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How should I launch an API demo as an MVP?
I have an API that I would like to launch as an MVP, to gauge market interest.
It extracts keywords from text.
Goals:
Acquire users on my mailing list, so I can market other products and services ...
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Automating Business Owner Validation/Verification
We are looking for a way to validate that the person who creates an account has the ability to speak for the business in question. (Only U.S. based businesses for now.) And we are looking for ways ...
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search crunchbase for companies which received over 1MM in funding?
I would like to get an insight into which are the most important startups at the moment. can I get a list of all crunchbase companies which received over a specific ammount in funding. I now ...
