Ask HN: My first project/maybe eventually startup

1 points by sinwave 12y ago ↗ HN

Hello HN. I'm building my first serious project, and I've got a general question for y'all. Is it a good or bad idea to integrate a few different APIs in the basic functionality of my site? I am considering using Dropbox for users' files, and MediaCrush for serving big media files. I apologize for vagueness...this project is nowhere near a point of being ready to talk about.

-sinwave

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jason_slack 12y ago ↗

I think if you can do it in a concise way to where you can manage the code/functionality. Why not?

However. If they change their API and you have clients paying you..you may need to scramble to fix issues you had no control over....

sinwave 12y ago ↗

thanks jason.