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How do third-party API services (me) earn? Otherwise as a developer, I'm providing a free service to users, and yet I'm paying steamship's hosting costs.

Please provide an alternative to ShipQL or just drop it entirely. Most developers I know are very allergic to learning new company-specific DSLs.

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Re: earning -- 100%. We'd love to talk to you if you've got thoughts / requests (crew@steamship.com).

Re: DSLs -- what's the famous saying? "All services that survive eventually grow large enough to re-implement email"? :) We hear you though; if there's a way to support a standard QL atop the domain we're serving, we'll give it a good look.

The query problem is hard. If we provide a DSL, someone has to learn the DSL, which no one likes. If we provide you some standard QL, we still have to explain what parts of it are supported / unsupported, and how it applies to our specific data model. We started with a small DSL and will have to see how people want to use it. Thanks for the feedback!

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