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I don't see the value in this service since markup conversion is built in to so many free libraries and services. What is the use case for this and who needs such as service?

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+1 I wasn't aware that parsing markdown was "Expensive"

Kramdown does it in pure ruby, and stupid fast as far as I can tell, and that's single threaded with the GIL.

There was a typo. The pricing has been updated.

I meant expensive computationally.

Of course, but that is part of the debate build vs buy. For every cloud API there is almost always an OSS that does the same thing.

But you'll have to maintain it, scale it, etc..that's the beauty of cloud APIs. You buy, and leave the boring part to others.

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