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Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by pjc50 »

Jnr wrote: post #20
jimmcslim wrote: post #15

I would pay a small amount (maybe $5 AUD per month) for access to an Open Banking API that lets me get the transactions, balances, etc from my accounts. Unfortunately under the current regime for Open Banking in Australia (part of the Consumer Data Right) you need to be an "Accredited Data Receiver" which I completely understand if I am accessing and storing financial data on the behalf of others. However for my own…

Nordigen is free for individuals. Not sure if it is supported by banks in Australia though.

I too would like this for the UK, and I believe the situation is similar. I've just tried Nordigen and it looks like it's the solution! ""Free forever"", as well.

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by avtolik »

Jnr wrote: post #20
jimmcslim wrote: post #15

I would pay a small amount (maybe $5 AUD per month) for access to an Open Banking API that lets me get the transactions, balances, etc from my accounts. Unfortunately under the current regime for Open Banking in Australia (part of the Consumer Data Right) you need to be an "Accredited Data Receiver" which I completely understand if I am accessing and storing financial data on the behalf of others. However for my own…

Nordigen is free for individuals. Not sure if it is supported by banks in Australia though.

Thanks, I haven't heard of Nordigen before, and it seems they have coverage in my country.

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by 01acheru »

A geo places API with the actual international ids of those places. There are a lot of geo something APIs but I still cannot find one where I can:

- Ask for all admin1 regions of a country and have all their actual data (like: all states in the US, or all regions in Italy)

- Ask for all admin2 regions in a given admin1 region (all counties in the state of TX, all provinces in the region of Lombardy). As you can already see "US.TX" is an identifier but "IT.Lombardy" is not, it is language dependent and I'm sure there are international identifiers for those but they are lacking in almost all geo something APIs

- Ask for all admin3 in some admin2

- Ask for all admin-whatever on a given ZIP code

- Ask for all ZIP codes in a given admin-something

- Bonus point if it supports i18n and l10n

If anyone knows of one please tell me, I would pay for it right now.

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by robertlagrant »

popcalc wrote: post #2

No one wants to pay for APIs. They want to solve headaches, appease their bosses, build cool things. Figure out a problem that a niche group of people have and you're golden. There are people making 6 figures selling CS:GO skin price feeds.

> Figure out a problem that a niche group of people have and you're golden.

Hence the Ask HN question.

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by altdataseller »

01acheru wrote: post #43

A geo places API with the actual international ids of those places. There are a lot of geo something APIs but I still cannot find one where I can: - Ask for all admin1 regions of a country and have all their actual data (like: all states in the US, or all regions in Italy) - Ask for all admin2 regions in a given admin1 region (all counties in the state of TX, all provinces in the region of Lombardy). As you can alrea…

What is the use case for you?

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by omtinez »

01acheru wrote: post #43

A geo places API with the actual international ids of those places. There are a lot of geo something APIs but I still cannot find one where I can: - Ask for all admin1 regions of a country and have all their actual data (like: all states in the US, or all regions in Italy) - Ask for all admin2 regions in a given admin1 region (all counties in the state of TX, all provinces in the region of Lombardy). As you can alrea…

You can use Wikidata and its Sparql query language for this. Although it's not straight forward for all countries, e.g. some have especial properties for regional breakdowns that are not defined as ISO standard subregions.

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by schappim »

notadev wrote: post #31

Crime data by location. Many real-estate sites removed their crime maps due to racism, but I think it’s still a valid metric to consider when moving to a new location.

Websites like microburbs [1] do this (and a whole lot more) for Australia. Surely there are websites and services in the US that do the same.

[1] https://www.microburbs.com.au

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by 01acheru »

altdataseller wrote: post #45
01acheru wrote: post #43

A geo places API with the actual international ids of those places. There are a lot of geo something APIs but I still cannot find one where I can: - Ask for all admin1 regions of a country and have all their actual data (like: all states in the US, or all regions in Italy) - Ask for all admin2 regions in a given admin1 region (all counties in the state of TX, all provinces in the region of Lombardy). As you can alrea…

What is the use case for you?

I'll try to say it in the least words I can so that it might be easier to explain:

Suppose I want to let my users input their customer's addresses. First of all I need some auto completion: the "state" select must suggest only states of the country selected previously and then so on with province, then city. The ZIP code must be one of the ZIP codes of the admin area selected.

Then they should be able to make this data accessible to other entities, for example a shipping company, so the identifiers of those address components must be "universal". But each of those address components also need localization and internationalization: if shared with an Italian I want the region to be called "Lombardia", if it is shared with an American it should be called "Lombardy", etc...

I hope it is clear enough :)

Re: Ask HN: What API's do people wanna buy/pay for?

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Post by fnomnom »

popcalc wrote: post #9
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There are people making 6 figures selling CS:GO skin price feeds. Really? I was working on a project a few years ago that needed this data so I setup a scraper to get all price data from Steam and Bitskins. It was running 24/7 and putting everything into a database that was very clean and neat. Maybe I should boot that back up and just sell access to the API...

Yes. The gambling sites that accept skin deposits invest a lot of effort into guaranteeing that someone can't fleece them by manipulating the price of an obscure item. On a similar note, there are also folk making 6 figs selling access to steam game hour idlers.

>steam game hour idlers

could you elaborate on that? what does this do exactly? idle for example on tf2 servers for drops but you dont have to run your own pc for that?

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