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Right now, we're focusing on the US. But we've made room for expanding internationally (the \"currency\" and \"geo\" fields are in place with this in mind). 2. We're analyzing…",{"id":55,"by":52,"text":56},"5217196","The guideline behind the free plan was to provide enough calls and functionality for any developer to build, launch and maintain a moderately sized app. Shout-out aghi from…",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Free plan with 1000 API queries a day; paid booster packs such as 150K calls for $159","commenter",[61,62],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"5217587","es3754","Looks great, nice work! Signed up for a free account to try it out. The pricing on the Large Booster Pack (150K calls for $159) doesn't seem correct given the pricing\u002Fvalue on…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":70,"objections":85,"requests":105,"questions":123,"alternatives":138},[71,78],{"value":72,"source":59,"evidence":73},"Free plan and cheap pricing for small-scale use",[74],{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"5217176","thejosh","Love the free plan, and the cheap pricing option for people who want to run this on a small scale.",{"value":79,"source":59,"evidence":80},"Historical pricing data is useful",[81],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"5217153","g_h","Having historical pricing data seems particularly interesting. 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Drop me a note at varun \u003Cat> semantics3.com, I would love to chat with you!",[106,116],{"value":107,"source":59,"evidence":108},"Book support with ISBN lookup",[109,113],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"5217527","hayksaakian","how does this do books? If I provide a random book barcode, it's usually an ISBN (10 or 13 digits)",{"id":114,"by":52,"text":115},"5217571","We don't have books yet. That's been a common request, so we'll be launching with books by the end of the month. If you'd like, I can notify you as soon as we do.",{"value":117,"source":59,"evidence":118},"UK and GBP pricing",[119],{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"5218717","duqee","I really like this product and would like to use it in the UK can pricing be set to GBP? 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The first problem can be solved with some creative mashups of data, images and videos... plus all you really need is 2-3 sentences to…",{"value":147,"source":59,"evidence":148},"SingleFeed",[149],{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"5221151","jmcgdz","I used this service before: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.singlefeed.com\u002F It's worth it if you don't have a ton of development resources and are trying to get exposure fast. However, if you can do…",{"value":154,"source":59,"evidence":155},"DataWeave book price API",[156],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"5225498","SachinWordsmith","Hi, Please check out the Book Prices API from DataWeave here: http:\u002F\u002Fwww.dataweave.in\u002Fapis\u002Fdataset-Book-Price-Search-By-ISBN--19.html (Full Disclosure: I am an employee of…",{"comments":43,"answered":161,"key":162},4,[163,166,169],{"id":164,"text":165},"5217271","That's a great idea. Pricing trends analysis could be done through the historical data we provide across the different merchants. 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