Hi, I'm new to the forum and nice to meet you all. I recently read the Fastlane Millionaire and it completely changed my mind and now I'm starting to embark on my journey of entrepreneurship. Recently I came up with a business idea and scored a B- with the C.E.N.T.S framework. One major issue is that it has a "0" score on control. The reason for that is I'm building a website that needs to query information from LinkedIn so I need to access their developer API. Since there's no other place I could query this information, I have to depend on them entirely. So if one day they changed their policy or shut down my account, my business would suffer.
However, I feel that many companies open their APIs to the public and many other businesses rely on those APIs. Is this really a concern and what will you recommend me do to mitigate it? Has anyone done similar things? I can think of querying their Profile API and store the data myself, and every time the user logs in, I could overwrite that data with the latest information. But I'm not sure if that's worth it since it seems unlikely to me that the LinkedIn API or the company will disappear one day.
I'd love to hear some suggestions and thanks so much in advance!
However, I feel that many companies open their APIs to the public and many other businesses rely on those APIs. Is this really a concern and what will you recommend me do to mitigate it? Has anyone done similar things? I can think of querying their Profile API and store the data myself, and every time the user logs in, I could overwrite that data with the latest information. But I'm not sure if that's worth it since it seems unlikely to me that the LinkedIn API or the company will disappear one day.
I'd love to hear some suggestions and thanks so much in advance!
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