I've built https://quickapi.io for the last two months to scratch my own itch:
I've been building multiple APIs as experiments in the last few years and wondered if I could sell them.
The thing is, to sell an API, you need to set up some complex code and infrastructure around it.
Just the fact you need to build user authentication and management, billing, credits, and metering for every API seemed crazy to me. So I build QuickAPI to take care of that.
Here's an example: https://jobtitlesai.com is a simple machine-learning algorithm to classify job titles. It uses QuickAPI, so every time someone signs up, he immediately has access to an API dashboard to manage his subscription and credits.
I'm aware there are a few existing actors, but I feel they are geared toward very tech-savvy developers while I'm considering addressing the no-code/low-code market where more "techy" developers can easily sell their work to "less-techy" people who want to build with it.
If you had a platform that lets you paste your bare endpoint (without auth, billing, and that just does its core thing), how would you use it? What would you sell? To whom?
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