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Since we are talking about the value of an online JSON storage system, would any of you be interested in a collaborative system for common JSON data sources? Something like Wikipedia but for structured data that currently lives as files or github repos?

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JSONbin.io developer here. Tracked the thread using GA after unusual spike in the traffic. Good point. We cannot trust any random service. It takes some amount of investment, dev time & server costs to keep the service up and running. The reason I developed this service is to ease the storage process for the developers developing mobile or small scale apps, so that they can focus on the app rather than spending time…

What's your take on developers not putting the effort forth to use their own object store (ie S3) for this? I'm not against developer velocity (disclaimer: not a dev), but this seems to be a cycle where hosted tool comes out, people rely on it, tool becomes too expensive to run, neglected, etc, and then tool goes dark one day. Would time be better spent on client libraries that ease the difficulties of using existing…

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