Genius API
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Genius API
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Re: Genius API
#2Anyone that is not from Genius care to comment how useful this might be? I'm having a hard time thinking about why I should integrate with this service. All it seems to do is take notes. Am I missing something?
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#3I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
Re: Genius API
#4Anyone that is not from Genius care to comment how useful this might be? I'm having a hard time thinking about why I should integrate with this service. All it seems to do is take notes. Am I missing something?
I actually think this has a ton of potential. Quick example would be documentation for some framework. Users can comment directly on confusing parts of some documentation, and after some discussion, it can be edited to fix whatever confusion there was. That's just one example, I think anywhere you have big blocks of text this will be handy. Even simple things like marking typos in an article would be much easier if every site used a single annotation service.
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#5I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
Isn't this a concern with most APIs? (Even paid ones can shut down, like Ordrx recently)
Re: Genius API
#6Anyone that is not from Genius care to comment how useful this might be? I'm having a hard time thinking about why I should integrate with this service. All it seems to do is take notes. Am I missing something?
I actually think this has a ton of potential. Quick example would be documentation for some framework. Users can comment directly on confusing parts of some documentation, and after some discussion, it can be edited to fix whatever confusion there was. That's just one example, I think anywhere you have big blocks of text this will be handy. Even simple things like marking typos in an article would be much easier if e…
Good point. Now, the question is, are the annotations available for download? If not, why bother? Annotations are useful if they can be saved and moved (just like bookmarks).
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Re: Genius API
#8I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
Isn't this a concern with most APIs? (Even paid ones can shut down, like Ordrx recently)
The problem I see with companies providing an API on top of their service is that their core business comes first, API second. So if someone were to use their API to build something that takes traffic from their core business, they will shut it down. Whereas a company whose sole business is providing an API won't run into that same problem.
And I can't blame the companies for making that decision either, why should the company serve your app if they're not even getting any traffic from it? Which would be a logical argument, except these companies open up their APIs and act like they are ok with it at first, and developers spend time building on top of them, creating even more useful services, making the original company even more popular, and then after those companies benefit from these developers, they shut them down.
This is similar to what happened in this case, which I think was a complete dick move by Soundcloud: https://medium.com/@padschneider/r-i-p-soundflake-79f7cf5f9d...
Re: Genius API
#9I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
What happened to the Soundcloud API?
Re: Genius API
#10I am very hesitant to build anything on a free API like this nowadays, after seeing what happened to the Twitter API, and more recently, the Soundcloud API. I don't feel comfortable building an app using their API, and then having them shut you down for whatever reason they come up with.
What happened to the Soundcloud API?
You can read about it here: https://medium.com/@padschneider/r-i-p-soundflake-79f7cf5f9d...
I was super bummed when it happened because I use Soundcloud a lot and their app has some serious issues. I was considering building my own client, but then saw that these guys built a really nice alternative. Sadly it got shutdown shortly after.