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How is monetising an API different from any other online business? Surely you still just need a place where people create an account, get their API key, and setup payment details.

Mostly in deciding and tracking what to actually bill for.

I dunno it doesn’t sound like a problem that like, needs a solution. I made an app that is basically an API and I just stuck stripe on it and bill people per second used up to a quota.

At least there are licensing gateways nowadays[0]. Now you just need to integrate it with a payment service of choice.

[0]: https://keygen.sh/docs/choosing-a-licensing-model/

you know i was reading the comments and i was thinking that apis are easy

then you reminded me about payment processors ...

That's a great example of adding features and feeding the complexity instead of offering what customers want.

I want to argue: "Well, capitalism contends that someone will show up to offer that product."

"Yeah, we'll get right on that," says the cartel.