No one wants to pay for APIs. They want to solve headaches, appease their bosses, build cool things. Figure out a problem that a niche group of people have and you're golden. There are people making 6 figures selling CS:GO skin price feeds.
Really?
I was working on a project a few years ago that needed this data so I setup a scraper to get all price data from Steam and Bitskins. It was running 24/7 and putting everything into a database that was very clean and neat. Maybe I should boot that back up and just sell access to the API...
On a similar note, there are also folk making 6 figs selling access to steam game hour idlers.
I had never heard about this before, but it makes (some small amount of) sense. Steam game hour idlers are also something I never imagined btw. We are truly living in the future.
could you elaborate on that? what does this do exactly? idle for example on tf2 servers for drops but you dont have to run your own pc for that?
Hence the Ask HN question.