A presentation given by Ed Freyfogle, Co-Founder, OpenCage, at our API-as-a-Product LiveCast on April 28, 2021. Watch the presentation here: https://youtu.be/mG2LChcXxA0
Learn more about the event: https://nordicapis.com/events/livecast-api-as-a-product/
5. Straight-forward REST API, JSON or XML output
Example request for 51.952659,7.632473
https://api.opencagedata.com/geocode/v1/json
?q=51.952659%2C7.632473
&key=YOUR-API-KEY
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7.
8. Why am I telling you this?
Lots of tech advice
Endless posts about having good docs
Limited advice about running an API business
22. Other pricing contradictions
Devs: “I want to pay only for what I use”
Devs: “I want pricing predictability”
Devs: Terrible at estimating usage in advance
23. Other pricing contradictions
Devs: “I want to pay only for what I use”
Devs: “I want pricing predictability”
Devs: Terrible at estimating usage in advance
Us: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
33. Support
Make the docs, but don’t expect them to be read
Users may be very new / bad devs
Lots of devs happy to read in English, struggle to write
or speak.
34. Some of the hard things
Pricing / Biz model
Competition
Support
35. What customers care about
Does it solve my problem?
Can I depend on them?
Is the price reasonable?
40. If you like geo stuff...
… you’ll love Geomob
Events: 4-6 speakers, doers, NOT marketing people
In LON, BCN, MUC, also online Next event 12 May.
Weekly podcast
thegeomob.com
41. And one more thing ...
Happy to pay for an open source
wrapper of our API in any
language we don’t have, no
matter how obscure.
opencagedata.com/sdks