The cycle I went through with @IFTTT is paradigmatic:
1) Company is launched, uses integration with niche sites to attract initial customers
2) Company gets VC, starts telling customers that niche sites are a "legacy" integration
3) Company shakes those sites down for money
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Step 4) involves angry tweeting until I get left alone and is my specialty. But it's disconcerting experience and I wonder if other small companies have been through it
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Having an email exchange with another company that built an entire product on top of Pinboard as a backend and are now sad because I blocked them (for making hundreds of requests a minute). Like, all this stuff is potentially okay but... buy me dinner first! Take me to a show!
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Please, please share your reply :)
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Lol please share the service name
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Outrageous. You should respond with “oh yes we have a partner sandbox available for $1000, or free with rev share agreement” :-)
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On the other end of the spectrum, my company has built a heavily-used integration that sends data to an unnamed, “big-iron” SaaS and they still want $50k from us for a hobbled developer instance
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*cough* marketo
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Their budget doesn't stretch to .. $22? Looking forward to reading the response.
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Having worked inside large organisations do you know how much pain and suffering you have to go through to convince procurement to pass you $22 to buy things *they* need to profit?
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