A cost effective API into whois data that doesn't come across as sketchy or fragile.
Whois data itself is also somewhat suspect in general. It's best effort, not required to be correct in any way.
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#92I need an accurate way to count words on a variety of documents, with and without renderable text. Could be an image, pdf, docx, etc. The renderable text isn't an issue, but the non has been for me. I've tried several OCR products and none have worked well as we often have something like an image of a hand written document or a low quality scan of an old document. Maybe something with computer vision instead of OCR is the right solution though as I don't need to know what the text says, I just need a count of the words or characters for languages that use symbols.
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#931) an API around freight shipping
2) an API to connect with insurance carriers as a broker
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#94An API that returns top 100 relevant web results via Javascript (aka the google ajax api which sadly they discontinued).
DuckDuckGo and Yandex have one
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#951) an API around freight shipping 2) an API to connect with insurance carriers as a broker
ShipRush does freight and LTL via API. On the downside, it's not as clean/easy to use as EasyPost.
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#96Subscription billing API that deals with reminders, renewals, e-mails/cancellations, etc. Everything related to that. All existing solutions don't work well if revenue per user is a "measley" 2 USD per month.
What would be an acceptable percentage to pay? Are we talking 10% or 2%?
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#97An API for handling image processing/uploading to S3: Use 1: Send a high-res image in any format (like, say, tiff), the original, a web-optimal jpg at full resolution, and any sizes that might be needed in various contexts (thumbnail, inline display at any screen density) are put into the right place in my S3 bucket. Use 2: Using ids or original file names, point the API to an image or array of images, uploaded via U…
https://uploadcare.com/ is great for image processing and allows you to specify your own storage option as well, including S3. Give them a look!
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#99A language API- finding synonyms or categories to words
You can use nltk/wordnet bindings ? checkout hypernymn and holonym.
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#100Product information. Things like "The mainboard named XY from producer ABC has the manufacturer sku 1234567, the EAN-13 00123... and the UPC 01234...". Ideally add to that the custom specs, like "it has that many usb slots and this socket" etc. But I think I miss part of the picture here, there is probably a channel transmitting structured information like this from manufacturers to vendors, I just never found it.
Technopedia (a BDNA product) does exactly this, but might be expensive for a startup. https://www.bdna.com/products/technopedia/ Disclaimer: I used to work for BDNA, and on this product, but have since left the company.
There are no prices listed -> they are targeting big enterprises, right?