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Question for those in this thread who are okay with this: If I have endpoints that are computationally expensive server-side, what mechanism do you propose I could use to avoid being overwhelmed?

The web will be a much worse place if such services are all forced behind captchas or logins.

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In 2005 I used a bot motel with Markov Chain derived dummy content for this exact purpose.

How do you make the money you need to finance these computationally expensive server-side endpoints?

Maybe I'm a community-driven project funded by donations and volunteer time. Maybe I'm a local government with extremely limited IT budget and no in-house skills. Maybe I'm just some dude who maintains a hobby project that lives on a NUC under my desk.

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