ApiStacks

So, like most things on the internet, spam is a problem! I quickly realized that when I started getting my platform out there in the world.

I added the hCaptcha solution to my sign-up forms to deter spam accounts. Hard to know which is a real person and which is fake. This has helped a bit!

Highly recommend using hCaptcha as they are privacy-focused, unlike other captcha solutions :D

Alright, first feature on Betalist!

Submitted my project on there and got an email saying my little project was featured! Super awesome so see it being worthy of a feature, and got me a good amount of traffic!

Also got me to figure out a bug in my code where it wasn't using user sessions, and I was getting crash errors!

Now it's fixed, so that was super helpful to see that!

Well, let's keep going!

It took about 2 months of solid coding, but I'm finally done building the minimum viable product! I worked mostly nights and weekends, and I coded the whole thing in ASP.NET since that's that I'm the most comfortable with. In hindsight, there were a few features I built that probably could've waited until later. But I'm excited to start talking to customers and see what they think about the product so far! Fingers crossed!

While I was looking for SAAS ideas, I realized that if I wanted to create a product using APIs, there was no one-stop-shop platform I could sign up for to rapidly use API endpoints without signing up on different websites.

That's when the idea came! How about I create the SAAS platform I was searching for, which was the one-stop-shop for parsing data on the web! Bingo!

And on to the drawing board I went!