Its very interesting and would certainly like to put it on some of my sites, but the lack of a paid plan is turning me off for 2 reasons:<p>1: Without a revenue method, how will they survive? I dont want to spend time integrating with something thats going to possibly go away.<p>2: If it does stay free, it makes me feel like I should expect little "powered by embed.ly" things being inserted into the code I get back some day.<p>Anyways, to summarize: Id like to use your product, but wont do it unless you charge for it or somehow make a server version that does not need to call out (similar to how Maxmind GeoIP is setup).<p>There are very few "free" services that I rely on, and the ones that I do are typically large open source projects (ie- apache, linux, etc..) or free offerings by huge companies that wont go anywhere (recaptcha)<p>So basically, if your intention is to keep it free, why not make a downloadable database of codes we can update from time to time with cron? It would be more economical in every sense and doesnt force our webapps to stop working if your servers go down.
who is the customer for Embed.ly?<p>I imagine this is useful for people who make mashup style apps that plug into various different services, but is that a big enough market size?<p>If I'm just plugging into one service, it's better to use the direct API than go through a middle man. If I'm using a dozen different services, I see the point of Embed.ly, but I don't see a huge business opportunity. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Does a service like this exist to do the opposite?<p>That is, a service that let's you submit / post data to one place and have it then pushed to multiple services / APIs as a result?<p>I think Wufoo does this for forms. But they wouldn't be a feasible solution for development.