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Validate this idea: Third party API Caller

Yes, You heard it right. It's a service that helps you call third party API on your behalf. Or, API as a service where you can call the third party at timely manner.

I created this already for my side projects and used it for my previous projects. So saasing this easy for me but wanted to get your perspective on this matter.

Take a look at this Twitter example. To post update on Twitter your app only allowed to call 300* per user; 300* per app. If you exceed this limit then twitter throws an error and resulting breaking user experience.

So I thought why not create a service that can take care of this third party API calling easy as pie.

Let me know your thoughts on this matter.

on September 1, 2022
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    Not a bad idea! I could see this as being useful for people scraping data from websites as well.

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      Mmm yeah! It can help with scraping data too. I can think of this services as the advance cron where it sends events to your application on particular period of time then it will idle.