Re:APIs that developers should know about
by techiferous on Monday December 13, 2010 @08:24AM
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I think it matters whether your business has found product/market fit. Before product/market fit, taking the time to build things in house increases risk--risk that you're wasting your time on a product no one wants. After product/market fit, it reduces risk--risk that your product that people are paying for will have reliability problems.
Re:APIs that developers should know about
by metageek on Monday December 13, 2010 @10:27AM
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>Given the choice between spending a day or a weekend building something in house
Remember that building it is not the only cost; you also have to consider the costs of maintaining it and keeping the servers running.
If it will take me a couple of months to replicate something which already exists as a web service, I will usually use the web service. If only temporarily.
None of the web services mentioned so far on this page seem significantly difficult to replace, and suggesting that people use them seems rather ill-informed advice...