Im currently putting together a website aimed at providing a service to developers all over the world

in short its simply an api, but will have massive capabilities eg currency conversion, sms gateway, postal code info, timezone conversion and anything else i can think of that may be useful

we will provide a single curl function that can perform any operation in a really straight forward way, and the output is returned plain with no tags, just simple text,

once a designer or website owner has an account they will have a daily request limit based on their package,

my webspace has a really strong backbone so site failiure is not an issue, there will also be an exact mirror is auto diverted to

i want to make this api really versatile giving it around a 1000 different functions, but what i really want to know is...


am i wasting my time?

is anybody gonna actually want to use this website?



if you think its a good idea, suggestions of functions will be appreciated.

I personally believe it is a good idea, as long as it is available for various programming languages, and it does provide some new functionality or at least it simplifies some complex tasks.

If it will be free, it will be a big hit.

Peace,

If it will be free, it will be a big hit.

Peace,

i would love nothing more than to make it free and some features will be, but some of the capabilities i plan to implement are not cheap, so unfortunately there will be a charge for certain features, nothing extortionate and one licence can be used on multiple sites

Are you wasting your time? Not at all!

As far as I know for developers to add features to their site (post code lookup), (currency conversion) they have to spend time looking around at the different services to find a service for each need. There is no centralised place they can use to perform all of those queries.

As long as you keep the databases reliable and up to date, I think free or paid usage it will work well. Something to consider to give developers extra flexibility would be to give them a licensing panel when they sign in. This way, each copy of their script they give out can have a unique ID with your service which they can set the limit to (and it will use it out of their total), that of course could be a paid feature.

If you have something already, I'm interested in testing it out (Alpha or Beta) please send me a private message if you want me to.

- Tom