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by joshstrange
4028 days ago
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Genius is really cool service (founders/owners aside) and I love it for song lyrics. An API into their backend sounds appealing but without some contract that keeps them from shutting down the API with little to no notice or pulling a twitter/soundcloud/netflix/etc I can't even begin to think about building on top of this (for anything but little fun side projects/POC's). |
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Which is exactly what they want. They don't want people scaling and running huge businesses off their API, they want lots of little experiments by people messing around. They can see what gains traction and then copy it. It's like a free startup incubator and your investment is the time your engineers spend keeping the API up.