no commercial version planned - I threw it up because it was something I was going to use (to build hackerhours.org), and figured it would be useful to others as well
1a) feel free to download the source and host yourself or write three lines of PHP
1b) not if you use the AJAX version - any response will come in as a string, so just don't eval()
2) the limit is really how many concurrent connections Node can handle, and the answer is "many"
3) It's at least useful for small mashup sites where you can throw up an HTML file with some JS - no server code needed
I think number 3 is the biggest point here, i'm all for solving developer pain points but would be interested to see if there really is a market for this?
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While useful, there are a few implications
1) security
2) scalability - how much traffics can you handle?3) I can implement your service with a 3-line PHP script. Why would I use your service?
1a -- you aren't just trusting this site, you are trusting everyone since the API keys can be found within the source.
3 -- it is even simpler than that; the source can be found on github. At the very least, services such as this are useful as you are still developing.
For the viability of a commercial version of this project, I think the biggest question is: why would somebody use this instead of Yahoo's YQL?
no commercial version planned - I threw it up because it was something I was going to use (to build hackerhours.org), and figured it would be useful to others as well
1a) not all API calls require a secret
True, but irrelevant.
Note that I was responding to "I won't trust you with my API keys"
On a tangent, while this is a problem for this particular website, the issue is solveable. (See YQL.)
1a) feel free to download the source and host yourself or write three lines of PHP 1b) not if you use the AJAX version - any response will come in as a string, so just don't eval() 2) the limit is really how many concurrent connections Node can handle, and the answer is "many" 3) It's at least useful for small mashup sites where you can throw up an HTML file with some JS - no server code needed
I think number 3 is the biggest point here, i'm all for solving developer pain points but would be interested to see if there really is a market for this?