Is the Explore page broken, or is it supposed to be empty?
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#12I'm getting OPTIONS pre-flight check errors for all calls to macgyver.services just fyi on Chrome so literally unusable "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin ' https://askmacgyver.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 502."
API went down, back up. Thanks.
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#13Is the Explore page broken, or is it supposed to be empty?
It's back up now.
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#14As someone with a research interest in such services maybe you allow me to ask a few questions (you don't have to answer all of them)
- What separates you from existing API Marketplaces (e.g. Algorithmia)
- What kind of run time environments do you allow?
- Do you have programmer APIs other than JS?
- From your blog I am assuming you use docker for running the algorithms? Will the docker images be made open too?
- How much effort do you think it would take me to transform an existing algorithm that I have to be available in your system?
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#15I have a side project that I host on Mashape, and I wouldn't mind looking into an alternative. However, the first thing I tried to find out is, how much does Macgyver cost? Mashape takes a % of what I charge end users, is this the same? Also, isn't the name going to get you sued?
> how much does Macgyver cost? Mashape takes a % of what I charge users
We allow you to name your own price and that is how much you will receive from those who use your program. However the client facing price will be higher as we tack on our additional processing overhead and a fixed percentage fee.
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#16Looks good, but the frontend is buggy on Chrome.
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#17I'm getting OPTIONS pre-flight check errors for all calls to macgyver.services just fyi on Chrome so literally unusable "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin ' https://askmacgyver.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 502."
API went down, back up. Thanks.
Looks like it's back down, at least for me, none of the examples are loadable. Edit - user signup is down as well.
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#18Very interesting and great name, however - should we expect a cease and desist order soon for using what is likely a trademarked name?
There was a MacGyver film in the works a while back, though I'm not sure what the status of it is.
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#19As someone with a research interest in such services maybe you allow me to ask a few questions (you don't have to answer all of them) - What separates you from existing API Marketplaces (e.g. Algorithmia) - What kind of run time environments do you allow? - Do you have programmer APIs other than JS? - From your blog I am assuming you use docker for running the algorithms? Will the docker images be made open too? - Ho…
> - What separates you from existing API Marketplaces (e.g. Algorithmia)
Macgyver differs from Mashape in that we host the program and actually run the program against the data (processing). This allows us to have more control over verifying the up-time as well as any changes to the program which might affect an end user's application (we do our own versioning so any new changes will be pushed as an incremental version) as to mitigate negative impact to clients already using the API.
We differ from Algorithmia in that we don't require you to learn our development tools or programming languages. We offer custom runtimes. We function by specifying -
1. How we will supply data to your program 2. The runtime you want us to use 3. How we expect the program to respond
But ultimately we don't care how your program does that or in what language it is programmed.
> - Do you have programmer APIs other than JS?
Not sure what you mean by this, the API takes and returns JSON but it can be used with any programming language.
> - From your blog I am assuming you use docker for running the algorithms? Will the docker images be made open too?
The programs are executed inside docker containers. We are still architecting the optimal workflow for our publishers and if that means making the macgyver docker image public we will do that but that is still TBD. We may just offer a sandbox environment for publishers to test in.
> - How much effort do you think it would take me to transform an existing algorithm that I have to be available in your system?
It's likely going to be easier than any other tool. We are going to work on providing more documentation and releasing the API docs very shortly - but the gist of the process is that you can move your algorithm program (or directory) into a folder in a standard linux box and from there you will just need to modify how you get your input data and how you format your output data, and specifying a runtime for macgyver to call on your main program file.
Thank you for the interest!
::Tim
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#20what can I do with program Id. So when I click on it. it says that it copied text, where and how can I use that?
I was here: https://askmacgyver.com/explore/program/general-optical-char...
Also why all have different pricing?
Also most of the things on website seems broken. Like there is a select dropdown on explore page But when selecting any item from the list, nothing happens. (Not sure whether that is intended)