I'm going to make a suggestion @patrike.
I have been a web project manager for many years, which in the end is web programming, design, etc ... Many of our data were through bot Scrape.
Right now the owner of cointomine is already saying that he has serious CPU load problems. surely use a shared VPS and without caches of any kind (memcached, varnish, do TXT every X minutes etc ...)
Knowing that the currency data is a fundamental part of your program, because without coins we can not undermine. And seeing that CTM asks for a donation, I have been the maximum donor for now. You have not considered adding a young programmer and dedicating it exclusively to scraping data from different exchanges correctly and appropriately for AM and charging a small monthly amount for serving that data in a premium plan, every few minutes.
It can not be that a program as good as AM, right now has bad data of apis that give us the prices that are not and that the owner is already saying that we are saturating his mini VPS. I prefer that you extend your service, add another programmer and that this only be dedicated to scrape data of exchanges correctly, and everything would be perfectly integrated with your program. I would pay perfectly $ 10 a month for that type of service if they offer me quantity and quality of data.
Right now CTM is a tremendous mess, does not read well the apis, most profitable currencies is because it gives us the price of sale and not of purchase, is complaining about the load, which makes me think that shortly or close or charge per month, and to pay a third party who does it wrong, I prefer that you expand the service and quality, this would also give you the opportunity to bill more per month and grow your business.
When a business reaches a certain level, it can not depend on the work of third parties who do not care about the quality of their data.
Hopefully when the other aggregator arrives, it will be of more quality.
Seriously, think about it, because you are now in a good moment to be able to offer that data in two versions in the medium term yourself. Slow vrsion, every hour for everyone, and premium version of payment every 5 minutes for example, using caching techniques you would only consume bandwidth and there are very cheap CDN for that same as bunnyCDN, and serve the apis at a cost derisory.
Maybe you do not want to incorporate people to the project, but I think it's time and not depend on third parties. I would pay for the data every 5 minutes. Why let someone else take the money you can earn ?, and what is more important, give better service to your users. I do not need to be arguing with the "DEV" to call it in any way, CTM, where much of the data is wrong and where you are already complaining about the cpu load of your shared mini VPS
Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately I've never seen it as a good business case to develop yet another service for providing coin statistics. It would require a significant amount of time, it would take away the main focus of what Awesome Miner is doing and it's only a few power users that actually are willing to pay extra for a service like this.
Given the current market trend for mining operations, the demand for such a service would be even lower. You would need like 500-1000 customers paying extra for a service like this in addition to what they already pay for the software. Although I understand your point and do understand that it's great to have better coin statistics - it's not a good business case and especially not now.
Product development is not only about avoiding third party services, it's also about focusing on the main purpose and main features of your product and try to make them as good as possible.
My view is that the coin providers we have today should charge for premium services where they support customers with valid coin statistics, follow up on any issues and continuously improving their service offering. Preferably they would offer some basic API with limits (like one update per hour) for free, and then they would have premium subscriptions for the power users that they support by resolving any issues.
Of course I respect your opinion, but the more complete your service, the more you can charge. You can charge for the program, for the cloud services and for the data. Good was an idea.
I do not have problems paying as long as they give me quality. CTM right now is the worst currency supplier we have, and even though I paid for the premium APi, I am the biggest donor.
If you read in your discord of CTM I am "porlapatria", and for more errors that you cominico, he gives me an excuse. THE truth is that most of your coins are dead in exchanges cemeteries and also gives the wrong price. I hope the owner of CTM will correct everything. AYer was talking to me about their VPS and that I had 32 gigs, I'm supposed to be a fool and I do not know about web development, when I've been running a small page development group for almost two decades and I've had very high traffic pages. And I have another job, I am Luthier, as you will see I am very versatile.
I have no problem paying a small monthly amount in good apis. You have to tell the owners of those services, and that the quality of the data matters.
But think one thing, in the end you are getting us to depend on third parties. We do not have a decent way to put a coin like AM CU, and if any coin service closes (CC, CTM ...) we are left without that data, if you do, those data are insured.
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