alt Hacker NewsCan you sell ads via api? If answer is no then this “feature” would be at the bottom of the list
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miroljub • today at 9:39 AM
Of course they can [1].
Though, in this case, you get free API access to the model.
3D30497420 • today at 8:24 AM
Plus, use of the API is a way to avoid ads. So double-strike against good/available APIs.
admx8 • today at 12:09 PM
What kind of ads they sell in terminal Claude code? Are you bor?
prinny_ • today at 8:24 AM
There is a world where approaches like HTTP 402 are implemented to monetize API usage.
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They can sell API access via transparent pricing.
Instead, many, many websites (especially in the music industry) have some sort of funky API that you can only get access to if you have enough online clout. Very few are transparent about what "enough clout" even means or how much it'd cost you, and there's like an entire industry of third-party API resellers that cost like 10x more than if you went straight to the source. But you can't, because you first have to fulfill some arbitrary criteria that you can't even know about ahead of time.
It's all very frustrating to deal with.