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by jollybean 1505 days ago
"This market isn't new; Google, AWS, OpenAI, etc. all have APIs they charge for."

And if they were standalone businesses they'd be losing money, it's neither a big nor profitable market.

When the business model for a project is not 'really obvious' it's usually a bad sign.

AirBnB, Uber, Stripe etc. - 'how' they make money is obvious, it's intrinsic to the product.