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I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).
by dyeje 1y ago
I imagine there is a lot of new pressure on public APIs now that there’s an explosion of vibe coded projects accessing them (some probably quite haphazardly).
- pmdr 1y agoIt's probably just good old-fashioned greed. Worked for X and Reddit, why wouldn't it work for them?
- dyeje 1y agoI wasn’t justifying the move, just a related thought that came up after seeing a few articles about Neon and Supabase having an explosion of new apps.
- 0x457 1y agoUhm, having a weather api is probably the easiest thing to implement because of how catchable it is. Any public api accidental can be prevented by tiered rate-limiting: - uber low limits for anon access - low, but reasonable for register free users - Up-to-you for paid users You might say: well, proxies are cheaper than paid plan, and solution to that - charge reasonable price.
- sitzkrieg 1y agoyou should see what happened when people finally understood XMLHttpRequest!