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For two decades, selling a small API as an indie developer meant the same playbook: build it, write docs, set up a pricing page, integrate Stripe, market it on Product Hunt, write SEO posts, hope some developer finds it. The distribution problem usua...

For most of the last decade, the default path to monetizing an API looked like this: build it, put up a pricing page, write Stripe integration code, set up webhooks, handle failed charges, write invoice templates, deal with VAT, build an API key mana...

When we set out to build CreateOS, the marketplace was going to be a web page. You'd go to a URL, browse Skills in a grid, click to purchase, and get a dashboard row. Standard stuff. Then we actually used it. Every time we wanted to find a Skill whil...

Dynamic pricing is not a new idea. Airlines have been doing it for decades. What has changed is the granularity — modern systems reprice every few seconds in response to signals that did not exist when batch ETL was state of the art. Ride-sharing zon...

Marketplace fraud is not a single-party problem. When a fraudulent booking happens on a car-rental platform or a gig economy app, both sides of the transaction contribute signals: the buyer who initiated it, the seller who accepted it, and the histor...
