One does not simply steal the software running the service, one must steal the entire service.
How does one profit from music? By creating fans which in turn builds a brand which can be leveraged in creative ways... concerts, endorsements etc...
How does one profit from movies? Exclusive access to high quality versions first. Avatar cost anywhere from $250m - $500m, it has grossed $760m. Theaters sign up, pay money and get the best shit first... sure it will be copied... eventually (maybe within hours) a pirate theater may get a hold of it... but will it always be in a few hours? Or will it be a day or three? Avatar made ~90% of its money by week 10... obviously the theaters don't want it out for as long as possible... same goes for the studios... so if all efforts were focused on inside leaks instead of consumption, a stronger business model and secured profits would be had.
In fact... when you look at it... the Gov is subsidizing the industry through law/enforcement due to the inability of the industry to manage its own business. 'HALP! I can't keep my fucking people in line'... the only real Gov. response should be... GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER BITCH.
How does one profit from books? Similar to movies and music... brands & exclusive distribution.
How does one profit from games? Exclusive and _secure_ distribution.
How does one profit from an idea? Building the infrastructure (the business) for that idea to execute.
Not to mention the kick started method... I threw down on Double Fine Adventure... some of you did too... its about to hit $3m.
If some thing is good... one does not simply steal that thing and inhibit its profit... one must steal the entire world in which that thing exists in order to really harm the thing stolen. Otherwise the harm done is marginal... and if that harms kills your thing, your thing was marginal as well. Better luck next time....
I guess the idea is that these are utilities right?
You have msging and mention identity, assets storage...
So really this seems like it is heading toward the basic functionality of a CMS...
So... you might end up building some cloud-backed framework to demonstrate the bundle of APIs... that might not be your focus but people could build upon it...
Which is fine if that is what you want to do... another possibility is to branch into APIs covering novel functions.
Given your pricing model, seems you are going for widespread use that leans toward the more generic APIs...
I guess the question is... what do you want spire.io to be in the near future? That would dictate which APIs come next.
Haha... yea... so I looked at the API for like 2 mins then the code examples... and was trying to find the justification for the 'We provide you with hosted, secure, reliable, and scalable APIs' part... all I saw was a msging api... so I started thinking all deep like... is there some other part that generically talks to any api... and this is some architecture that organizes the other apis... like 'channels' & 'messages'... hahaha... then I was like... the hell... and RTFCs.
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Perhaps, if you plan on other APIs that's cool but give indication that this is just one... give it an icon or something... and then a 'coming soon' icon... group 'em up in a section called APIs.
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