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Read launch updates, buyer guides, and short notes on the APIs featured in the storefront.
A working comparison of the free FX rate APIs developers actually reach for, what breaks at scale, and the point where paying pennies per call becomes cheaper than the free tier.
Most crypto price APIs sell you a monthly plan for a handful of calls a day. Here is what you actually need, what the free public endpoints do to you at scale, and how to structure a price fetch that does not break.
Throwaway inboxes wreck your activation metrics and your free tier. Here is how to detect disposable email domains at signup with one API call, plus the failure modes to avoid.
IP geolocation is great for currency defaults and fraud signals, and terrible for anything requiring precision. A developer guide to using it correctly, with request examples.
A blunt look at the options for buying API access as a solo dev or small team in 2026 — marketplaces, direct vendors, self-hosting — and how to pick based on your actual call volume.
Clean markdown extraction from any URL for RAG pipelines, scraping, and AI agent workflows. JavaScript rendering, table preservation, and practical Python examples.
How to query A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SRV, and SOA DNS records in a single API call. Practical examples for email validation, security research, and infrastructure monitoring.
A practical launch catalog for revenue: start with the API categories buyers already compare on budget and usage.
Why the launch offer is prepaid credits, unified routing, and a catalog built around the highest-demand API categories.