Re:Ask HN: I’d pay X for Y
by g12u on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @11:08PM
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I'd pay for a protocol or API test suite to help me build compliant clients and servers.
For example let's say I want to make my own HTTP client like curl. Instead of relying solely on the RFC or spec, I can additionally use this test suite to run my code against the spec and as many edge cases possible. I expect the HTTP product to cover the usual header grammar but also timeouts, HTTP/2 upgrades, encoding mismatch, etc.
I can see myself paying $100 and over depending on complexity.
For example let's say I want to make my own HTTP client like curl. Instead of relying solely on the RFC or spec, I can additionally use this test suite to run my code against the spec and as many edge cases possible. I expect the HTTP product to cover the usual header grammar but also timeouts, HTTP/2 upgrades, encoding mismatch, etc.
I can see myself paying $100 and over depending on complexity.