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Easy - I'll just inject text-based ads into the saved data!

(Kidding, of course...)

I think it's unlikely that this site can be monetized, so I don't have my hopes up. The clearest direction would be to move up the "backend-as-a-service" spectrum into Headless CMS land (which I have a diagram for here: http://alexzirbel.com/npoint). But I think it would be hard to balance that with the quick setup / unstructured data nature of the project.

One feature (maybe a premium feature) I'd love to add is form-based data editing. Theoretically you could generate the right kind of input fields (text, date, number) from the JSON schema and expose that as alternative editing interface. That would make the tool more like a CMS.

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For my side project, I've been coming at essentially the same problem from the CMS angle. n:point is very neat by the way - great job!

I'm building a service that makes it possible to quickly create reusable content objects using Trello. The flow is: you write your content objects as cards in Trello, then you hit my service to get an array of self-contained JSON objects.

In terms of monetization, I'm building the service on stdlib.com. This means that I can charge a very small fee for each API request. (My service is not intended to be called from front end code.) Each user will also have an allowance of free calls. And I've already open-sourced the core functionality [1]. Definitely open to suggestions on this approach, though.

I keep thinking about adding support for schema validation. Your project has given me more to think about on that front! However, my immediate goal is to get the MVP ready to share.

Right now the MVP is live, but the landing page is not done yet. Feel free to get in touch if you're interested in more details - my email is in my profile.

[1]: https://github.com/dwilding/trello-kb

Maybe this can help:

http://schemaform.io/examples/bootstrap-example.html

It's quite cool actually (depending on how much you love/hate Angular though).

Something like that might be good to have as a premium feature, albeit I would think not something you could charge an arm and a leg though... or perhaps you can, if you add something like schema versioning perhaps?

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