I came across https://flairtable.com/ the other day which wraps airtable and provides a frontend-ready API.
I wonder how many people's products are built on or for another, are part of a marketplace?
Is whatever you're building reliant on another tool? Do you consider that a risk or a benefit?
I'm always wary of building recurring/subscription-based products on top of platforms you don't control. You're liable to have the rug pulled out from under you at any moment for a variety of reasons. Even being on the Apple App Store/Google Play Store stresses me out some times.
I know someone who worked for Stackla (corporate marketing integration for social media), and one day Facebook decided to revoke their API access. Years of work and millions of dollars of investment disappeared, basically overnight.
It was restored under threat of lawsuit a few months later, but I'm not sure how much it affected their business long term.
Yeah, if I recall twitter pulled a pretty widely used API a while back and a few companies whole proposition became impossible - can't remember the details.
Dogger relies on Docker, but I don't see that going away any time soon.
Pull Dog relies on GitHub, and that's pretty much the same.
And if they change, it's not hard for me to adapt.
Yes , voiceduck.com relies on Alexa , Google and Samsung Bixby in seperate forms because we create voice apps for those platforms . Sometimes I feel it could be risky but then again they do want people to add to the voice app ecosystem .
Cool idea! I don't imagine voice UI is going away any time soon, api deprecations could be an issue I suppose.
yea still waiting for the Bixby actual device to come out but Alexa API is great google not so much .
Yes, my Indie Hackers client relies on IH (obivously) and yes I consider it a risk but a risk I'm okay with taking.
Nice, I'm going to give that a go. Do you hope to monetise it, or is it just for the fun / for the sake of it?
Awesome! Looking forward to hearing your feedback!
Yes, I hope to monetize it but I don't expect to make much due to people generally not wanting to pay much for apps.
Afraid I can't give you any feedback. I'm an Android user. Sorry!
gah! So sorry man. I'll keep you posted on any Android progress 👍
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