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by AznHisoka 3996 days ago
who says they even use their API? They could just crawl it. Besides I'm willing to bet Yelp could care less.
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willu 3996 days ago
They almost certainly do not use the API given its limitations, and unfortunately the Yelp folks do have a history of suing crawlers:

https://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/califo...

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jff 3996 days ago
> Besides I'm willing to bet Yelp could care less.

Would you bet your own startup on it? I wouldn't.

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AznHisoka 3996 days ago
If OP believes in the idea, has domain expertise in it, and has some validation, why not pursue it? Everything comes with risk.

The alternative is waiting years, potentially NEVER to find a perfect, 100% risk-less (which doesn't exist, btw) startup idea that will help him become very rich.

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