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I read the post by the guy who created ipinfo.io and how the API gets over 250 Million requests per month https://blog.ipinfo.io/api-side-project-to-250-million-requests-with-0-marketing-budget-bb0de01c01f6. I found that inspiring and now I want to help the developer community. I'm not looking to profit from the idea. I'm looking to create an API that people want. To quote the guy who created ipinfo.io "Make What People Ask For".
Hey - Ben, the founder of IPinfo here - saw this post in google :) I've just signed up to the IH and added IPinfo here: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/ipinfo
We now do closer to 500 million API requests per day, have around 1000 paying customers, and we've done a ton of work around creating our own IP based data sets (such as IP to company or carrier, and IP type, using an ML to classify each IP address as being a business IP, hosting provider, or consumer ISP).
Happy to answer questions about IPinfo, or anything really!
That article is over a year old. The website claims this now...
"We handle 12 billion API requests per month for 100,000+ businesses and developers."
If you will not look for a profit, you will lose your motivation fast. :(
Thanks for the sharing this great article :)
I guess you are right. BTW Thanks for the complement. Making money is fine but first I need to find the need and then build an API people want.
but always be looking to make money, its a must
Well if the product has demand behind I would charge for it. Now I need to find the problems/issues developers are having. So I can create an API to make that issue go away.
"Well if the product has demand behind I would charge for it." You wont know if there is true demand until you ask someone for some money :-)
Yes but to charge money for the product (in this case an API) I need to find the need.