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Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
There are usually multiple levels of Twitter API access. (regular, white label, fire hose) The same can be applied to FB Ads API (reg, pmd, spmd) & many other APIs. In my experience, a lot of these APIs aren't as reliable and can sometimes cause huge financial loses. (Imagine if you use the FB Ads API to run an Ad campaign for a client - it goes out of sync & you sync back 10 mins later - in a matter of 10 mins - you could've spend $X) Since your relying on the networks API - they are not liable for any sync issues - you have to take that on as a liability on your end. Ideally, the third party would have premium level access all these APIs that you can leverage, but the big value add would be around the financial payout versus the premium level API access. (It would something like gnip.com with insurance)
Comment · 12 years ago
soulver is a neat everyday expense/adding tool - how could you see this being applied to the 'web' in general?
Comment · 12 years ago
I don't think you'd pay Twitter - essentially - you would pay this "third" party service similar to any insurance company & when there is an incident - this service would investigate & offer you a payout. Just like any car/home insurance plan - where the payout is based on your coverage plan/incident. Then, based on the payout amount you can potentially give your customers a "discount" for that month. (in a SaaS B2B business)From a technical perspective, it would be ideal if this third party insurance provider can act as a "stop gap" or a "temp API" if the main service provider's API is down. (maybe they have a separate API connection with say someone like Twitter which is more reliable than the one you have - I'm thinking something like a firehose)
Comment · 12 years ago
An insurance plan for APIs - in today's world companies are extremely reliant on 3rd party APIs for a variety of applications (FB Ads API, Twitter's API, etc.), however, in my experience, these APIs are not a 100% reliable & can sometimes go down which impacts the end customer/user. Similar to travel insurance, if you can provide the option as an add-on to buy insurance against this downtime - there are several business models - but essentially you would be offering a modern day "SLA".
Comment · 12 years ago
I signed up for goconspire.com a while back - it does a decent job at that (weekly/daily email stats)
Comment · 13 years ago
some immediate feedback - take it for what it is. I was a little confused by the title: "The biggest, fattest, online FAQ" - Why would I care about FAQs? FAQs are boring, hard to find on most websites & not really an option any more on most web apps. I want immediate answers to my questions - so maybe changing your messaging around that. Moving away from FAQs to something along the lines of Yahoo Answers..
Comment · 13 years ago
Great site, but I see a bigger opportunity that would require a small pivot after thinking more about the real problem behind the concept. Instead of solving the problem behind "sharing" or "creating" a scrapbook of your travels - one of the big holes/problems I see in the market is around booking trips together. I'm planning a trip to China in a few months with a few buddies - organizing the all the logistics, payment, bookings etc. - is a nightmare for 1 person - imagine if your talking about 3 or more people. There a number of trips planned every year for groups - weddings, bachelor parties etc.
Comment · 13 years ago
Loved the first kickstarter package - perfect fit.
Comment · 13 years ago
Hey - we send you very small snippets of content everyday through email/app about that Coffee. So as you enjoy your cup everyday - you get a learn a little bit about what made all of it possible.
Comment · 13 years ago
Hey! 10 oz of Coffee with the $15 Indiegogo contribution.
Comment · 13 years ago
It is about creating an amazing experience around enjoying your Indian Monsooned Malabar Coffee everyday - learning something new about that region. We agree, cost is something that we are focused on bringing down - with scale & time - this is definitely possible.

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