If you promise 'free forever,' bank years of runway
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we're going to stash that money in the bank for as long as it takes to build up some number x number of years of hosting fees, where if something happened, and one of us got sick, or something happened, and the project got derailed, we would have an X amount of years of runway
Episode 121: Lawful but Awful (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:25:49 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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The Podcast Index promised an API free for anyone's use forever. To keep that promise, any surplus goes into the bank until it covers years of hosting, so the API keeps running if someone gets sick or the project is derailed, even with no income. That means keeping expenses low enough to keep saving.
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Episode 121: Lawful but Awful (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:25:25 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
We did promise controversial. And so we promised an API that would be free for for anybody's use forever.
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