A cost effective API into whois data that doesn't come across as sketchy or fragile.
I worked on a project for one of the big registars and even they didn't have a proper whois api!
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#12Product 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.
A lot of retailers misuse these SKUs and UPCs. there are some that have a many to many relationships. Its horrendous.
You can checkout Open Food Facts though the amount of data is sparse.
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#13Easy way to get geo from ip. I hate a lot of the options: downloading binarys or using google's that just regulates you.
There was a solution for this on HN not a week ago..
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#14Easy way to get geo from ip. I hate a lot of the options: downloading binarys or using google's that just regulates you.
We are using the geo lookup api fram maxmind, with success. Gets quite expensive though, if you are not careful
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#15A real estate API for active/sold residential and commercial listings.
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#16Easy way to get geo from ip. I hate a lot of the options: downloading binarys or using google's that just regulates you.
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#17I wanted machine learning-based app configuration. So I built it and spun it out as a separate product: https://improve.ai/
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#18Product 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.
Icecat (:http://www.icecat.biz ) seems to come close ?
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#19An API providing access to coupons from major retailers in a machine readable format.
Edit: Great question by the way!
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#20Bret Victor's The Future of Programming has intriguing ideas on APIs that are tangentially related to this topic.