A good affordable https API to determine location from IP address.
Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
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Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#132A simple AB testing API.
Years ago I've created embeddable A/B testing platform (but only for PHP projects). It's super simple to implement and relevant to your wish http://www.binpress.com/app/multivariate-ab-testing-for-php/...
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#133A webhook or something that would tell me when a phone number changes owner. I.e.: when we bill someone weekly for something and then the phone number changes owner we want to stop immediately. Same if you send sms-es that you don’t want delivered to anyone but the intended recipient.
I can understand the positive uses for such an API. For the uses you mentioned it would be great. However, I hope nothing like that is ever made! It would get abused to no end. I've personally changed number multiple times for privacy reasons.
I see your point but as long as the
1. You only get notifications for numbers you sign up to watch
2. The webhook only notifies me that will be transferred (using some data format)
then it shouldn't be a problem, should it?
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#134Let me programmatically schedule a task to run at a specific time, just once. E.g. if my user tells me to remind them about something in a day, I want to schedule a task to do that exactly 24 hours from now. I'm sure this exists already but it's hard to find because searching usually points me to a cronjob service. But what I'm looking for is distinct from a that. I don't want to run something every minute or hour or…
What exactly do you mean by a "task". Just remind you by sending you an email? or actually running a command on your computer?
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#135I wanted machine learning-based app configuration. So I built it and spun it out as a separate product: https://improve.ai/
ok so, for lack of value, I deleted my previous response to your post: "wow this is super awesome- wish I had a use case for it!" but now that improve.ai ads are starting to pop up in my Facebook feed, thought I could provide some value letting you know about that mistarget. XD
How could anyone have possibly targeted you on Facebook from your comments here? I am genuinely curious. I checked and saw HN doesn't load any Facebook libraries, and I could find no identifiable info about you from your HN profile.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can understand the positive uses for such an API. For the uses you mentioned it would be great. However, I hope nothing like that is ever made! It would get abused to no end. I've personally changed number multiple times for privacy reasons.
I see your point but as long as the 1. You only get notifications for numbers you sign up to watch 2. The webhook only notifies me that will be transferred (using some data format) then it shouldn't be a problem, should it?
I think it would be ok as long as it didn't tell you what the person's new number is or who now owns if it gets reassigned.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
We've had an excellent experience with http://cloudinary.com/ for pretty much what you describe.
as a consultant, I picked up cloudinary for a client, promised "75,000 Total Images & Videos" then a team of four people used the free data shortly, they contact us saying to either pay $44 per month or shutdown, why? we are over free bandwidth... relocated a developer to spent some hours writing a restful services, now paying ~$0.030 per GB
> why? we are over free bandwidth...
I don't have any experience with cloudinary, but to be fair, their pricing table mentions each plan's limitations pretty clearly. Is it really their fault that you underestimated the customer's requirements?
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#138I wanted machine learning-based app configuration. So I built it and spun it out as a separate product: https://improve.ai/
I think this is a really cool idea, but I feel like it could be described in a better way. 'Machine learning-based app configuration' is very techie and vague and could mean a LOT of different things in a number of realms. What about something more specific and benefit-focused, like: 'AI that automatically improves your site's design'? To me something like that communicates what the product is more clearly, assuming…
Thanks for the feedback. Working to find the best language has been a hard slog. It's actually not for improving a web site's design but is targeted specifically at mobile apps. I'm using the "configuration" language now so that developers maybe get an idea of how it integrates.
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
ok so, for lack of value, I deleted my previous response to your post: "wow this is super awesome- wish I had a use case for it!" but now that improve.ai ads are starting to pop up in my Facebook feed, thought I could provide some value letting you know about that mistarget. XD
How could anyone have possibly targeted you on Facebook from your comments here? I am genuinely curious. I checked and saw HN doesn't load any Facebook libraries, and I could find no identifiable info about you from your HN profile.
i visited improve.ai- presumably some cookie there is catching me.
that's not to say I haven't had some super weird "how do they know..." moments with Facebook ads lately...
Re: Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
ok so, for lack of value, I deleted my previous response to your post: "wow this is super awesome- wish I had a use case for it!" but now that improve.ai ads are starting to pop up in my Facebook feed, thought I could provide some value letting you know about that mistarget. XD
How could anyone have possibly targeted you on Facebook from your comments here? I am genuinely curious. I checked and saw HN doesn't load any Facebook libraries, and I could find no identifiable info about you from your HN profile.
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