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I could have used this about two months ago. Instead I built a simple npm module – https://github.com/switz/melt This is far better, though.
Nice! That's where we started, then got carried away... very, very carried away ;) Hope you find it useful; we'd love to hear from you!
And honestly.. another API? So it only works as long as you are in business (which is based on what by the way?) or decide to kill or change it? And also posting to my social media will be going through your machines? Seriously?
If you'd offer me an opensource script that I could call like "localhost/post?message="hello"&where="twitter,blog,facebook".. that would be different story. But hey, good luck locking others in your new service.
This sounds a lot like http://singly.com/ - how is it different?
You lost me here: "We think that formats like RSS don't make sense for today's internet". And honestly.. another API? So it only works as long as you are in business (which is based on what by the way?) or decide to kill or change it? And also posting to my social media will be going through your machines? Seriously? If you'd offer me an opensource script that I could call like "localhost/post?message="hello"&where="…
There's a discussion below this one why it makes sense to have a single API for this, instead of open-sourcing the code. The benefits are numerous (we're hooking into many paid APIs and covering the costs, for example).
You lost me here: "We think that formats like RSS don't make sense for today's internet". And honestly.. another API? So it only works as long as you are in business (which is based on what by the way?) or decide to kill or change it? And also posting to my social media will be going through your machines? Seriously? If you'd offer me an opensource script that I could call like "localhost/post?message="hello"&where="…
I agree that it would be awesome if it was opensource so you could mitigate any risks by having it run on your own hardware, but really it's a valuable service and they deserve to make some money, which will play into keeping the service alive.
You lost me here: "We think that formats like RSS don't make sense for today's internet". And honestly.. another API? So it only works as long as you are in business (which is based on what by the way?) or decide to kill or change it? And also posting to my social media will be going through your machines? Seriously? If you'd offer me an opensource script that I could call like "localhost/post?message="hello"&where="…
RSS format sucks because XML sucks. I agree that it would be awesome if it was opensource so you could mitigate any risks by having it run on your own hardware, but really it's a valuable service and they deserve to make some money, which will play into keeping the service alive.
The stack which is required for the Streamified API is really quite large, too. Between node, mongo, elasticsearch, and a few other pieces of software... plus a few dozen node modules and even some custom linux configuration, it's really not feasible to expect devs to install it on their own machines ;)
$ curl -I http://streamified.me
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Location: https:\/\/streamified.meEarlier quoted context omitted.
RSS format sucks because XML sucks. I agree that it would be awesome if it was opensource so you could mitigate any risks by having it run on your own hardware, but really it's a valuable service and they deserve to make some money, which will play into keeping the service alive.
Thanks! The stack which is required for the Streamified API is really quite large, too. Between node, mongo, elasticsearch, and a few other pieces of software... plus a few dozen node modules and even some custom linux configuration, it's really not feasible to expect devs to install it on their own machines ;)
One could run their own NewsBlur, but Samuel has stated it requires a lot of resources to pull RSS feeds, and so in practice it's much easier to pay them $2/month. (This may not apply if you plan on having business customers who are paying orders of magnitude more than that.) But it alleviates any fear that the service users depend on may disappear; in the worst case, run it yourself.