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Re:Show HN: APIRank.dev – we crawled and ranked 5651 public ... by glimow on Thursday March 09, 2023 @03:45PM (#35086430)
We used Algolia free tier for the search but all the credits were consumed :') I take this as a learning for our next side project
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Re:Show HN: APIRank.dev – we crawled and ranked 5651 public ... by mdaniel on Thursday March 09, 2023 @05:00PM (#35087374)
I try to impress upon my colleagues that error handling is the hallmark of good engineering, because the happy path is only one possible outcome

Had the search said "error while searching: 403" (or whatever) versus "no results" there would have been far fewer complaints in this thread

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