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Discussion on: My Idea did it into an Accelerator, I need your opinion :)

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Alex Janke • Edited

As a general rule of building a business: Don't post your idea online before you're done with what you're working on.
You're basically giving people online free input on market ideas.

I do have a few counter-questions though:

  • Did you scan the market for potential competition?
  • What features does your competition offer that you maybe don't have?
  • Pricing model? Tier based? pay-as-you-grow?

To answers your questions

What do you think about the Idea?

Interesting for sure but I feel like this construct would rise or fall based on the content of the APIs that you offer. If there just aren't any good, or many, APIs then companies won't jump onboard.

Would you use it? if no, why?

I work for the german government, so no. In private sector maybe yes.

What features can we add to be more attractive for you?

  • Easy accessible frontend (mobile too, for checking usage data and maybe logging)
  • Good method to explore APIs. Maybe by category, newest, most used, ...

Do you have some name suggestions for our project?

nope, lol. This is always more difficult than writing the actual thing from scratch in my opinion