Ask HN: Are you willing to pay for a Summly-like API?

4 points by MojoJolo ↗ HN
I have an algorithm that gets the most important sentences of a news article. Yes, like Summly does. I created an API for it where in you can use it to anything you can think of. Example: You can use it to provide "teasers" for your blog posts. Right now, I'm currently using it and embed it in some of my blog posts [1].

So my question is, are you willing to pay for an API like this?

[1] http://jpbalb.in/post/51236373080/readborg-and-textteaser-api-architecture

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There are too many open source alternatives for me to consider paying for something like this. Plus, API's are risky to integrate -- you'll never be able to guarantee the 100% uptime that you get from using a library. Libraries don't go down.
Embed.ly has, in part, built a business of this