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Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make by thrownblown on Thursday November 01, 2018 @07:15PM (#18359335)
I don't understand down votes.

I often will see the price of an API (cough Google maps) and roll my own solution.

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Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make by sokoloff on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:37AM (#18362266)
An independent developer capable of making a replacement for the entire Google maps API on their own probably isn’t likely to remain poor for long.
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Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make by jcadam on Friday November 02, 2018 @09:22AM (#18362795)
Creating an API isn't that hard. Crafting system architecture to handle a reasonable amount of load isn't that hard nowadays either.

But where the heck am I supposed to get all the data?

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Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make by sokoloff on Friday November 02, 2018 @10:03AM (#18363074)
> But where the heck am I supposed to get all the data?

That’s exactly my point. Making a full replacement for an API (endpoint) is much more than writing some swagger.

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Re:Sales mistakes that software engineers make by chippy on Sunday November 04, 2018 @11:58AM (#18376770)
openstreetmap in this example!
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