Hello, I’m a professional web developer planning to build a service that does exactly what the title says. I’m looking for feedback from you, what features are must haves. I’m thinking the flow would essentially be like this:
1) You create and fill the google sheet that has the dataset in it you wish to sell API access to. Probably you’ve already done this
2) You login to my site, give the API a name and define pricing. I think what makes the most sense here are rate limits (i.e. x number of GET requests per minute/hour/day), so you define 3 rate limits, for your 3 pricing tiers. You provide credentials that provide access to only that google sheet, my service automatically generates a REST API for your sheet.
3) you can either manually generate API keys for your customers through my website, or you can use an internal API with my site to automatically provision them for your customers.
4) Your customers pay you directly for API usage, if they stop paying you revoke their keys (again either through the UI or through one of my internal API’s).
I’m thinking of charging $30, $50 and $100 per month for 3 tiers that will allow you to provision your API based on requests/hour and number of API keys.
What concerns do you have about that? The beauty of integrating with google sheets is that I suspect many of you already have many datasets within google sheets. I’m just providing a way to give programatic access. You can also update the google sheet and the API will automatically provide that updated data. You could also programatically write updates to your google sheet as well, your customers would not have write access.
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