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Usually good money in scarping price data and selling to traders. HOWEVER, they will expect a very robust API that goes beyond a hobby project / side-hustle level of polish and robustness.
What price data exactly?
So here is an API we would have paid for, and I assume many still will: A product catalog. They do exist, but they are expensive and aren't not that great. What we where after and gave up on was an API that would accept an EAN-13 barcode and return product details, images, good descriptions, in multiple language (specifically NOT machine translated) and possible alternative EAN-13 barcodes for the same product. As a…
If you want to tackle this, make a Product Information manager or Product Experience manager(PIM/PXM) that is easy to use, very API friendly and sanely priced. A lot of products in this space are priced crazy for small to medium manufacturers.
I still see a huge value proposition in an API that can lookup production information based on barcodes alone. Scan the item when it first arrives in the warehouse, or when a PO is made and just suck down the relevant information. You could even tier the offering: Tier 1: you get title and one image, Tier 2: Five images and product attributes. Tier 3: All images, attributes and product descriptions. Then add a fee for every language you need translations for.
If you could do this right, then it is my belief that it could change a number of industries. Technically it's not even that hard, but there's a ton of manual work involved, contract with every manufacturer on the planet and insane QA.
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.
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.
For example it is common to receive historical entities if they are mislabeled, entities that no longer exist because they were merged... it is good for a side project but not suitable for production.
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Nordigen is free for individuals. Not sure if it is supported by banks in Australia though.
I didn't know about Nordigen, but how are they able to support the absurd amount of 1222 banks in Germany? Looks like a good indicator how broken the digital world of banks here really is.
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I didn't know about Nordigen, but how are they able to support the absurd amount of 1222 banks in Germany? Looks like a good indicator how broken the digital world of banks here really is.
In EU all the banks have to support a common standard. They all use that standard to interface.
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.
Really? Forgive me for wanting to know whether a neighborhood is fraught with crime before forking over hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, of dollars into a home.
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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?