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I did this when I first started writing REST APIs. It felt natural and the "right" way to do it. However, it didn't scale well.

And I'm not talking about website scalability with traffic.

It eventually made development more difficult than it was worth. For example, doing things like enabling/disabling an object is a whole API call rather than a simple UPDATE statement. Either you have to set up an API endpoint to handle toggling the status of that object, or you have to send a whole (sparse) request just to flip a flag. Stuff like that can be tedious.

I love REST APIs and I loved what they have done for the web, but I've changed my mind over the last few months that this separation of design is always necessary.

Thanks for posting this. It wasn't immediately obvious that the header of each section was a link to the service. I kept clicking the images thinking it would take me there.

Regardless, I really like the idea of Briefmetrics. Thanks!

It's the same with The Something Awful Forums. It is $10 to join, and it really helps keep the trolls out. One of the best communities on the web.

Opera (the browser maker) acquired them, but then Fastmail bought themselves back. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail

The single best way to make money as a freelancer or consultant is to grow your own personal network. The brand you are selling is essentially you, so you have to build a strong network to support that brand.

I own a small software company and literally 100% of our clients come from within our network. One friend referred me to one client, and that client referred me to their clients, and so on.

Spend time building your network and you'll be successful.