Some nits about your encrypted API:<p>1. The ciphertext is not authenticated. You should MAC it.<p>2. The plaintext is padded with spaces to be block-aligned. "Hello world" will collide with "Hello world_" when encrypted with the same IV, and both will decrypt as "Hello world_____" (where "_" means a space). Use PKCS#1 or some other standard padding.<p><a href="https://github.com/sonofabell/leftronic/blob/master/python/leftronic.py#L260" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/sonofabell/leftronic/blob/master/python/l...</a>
Is this really a <i>pain</i> that companies feel? That they can't visualize or gather critical data into a coherent view? It seems to me that this might be a great thing to have, but companies don't necessarily know this. When you have to <i>explain</i> and <i>pitch</i> to companies why they need your product, I think you're on dangerous waters. A truly good product should have companies seeking you out, because what you're doing makes their lives that much easier, I don't see it for this product.
Would be great if there were more examples of what has been done with the API on the homepage.<p>They should market this towards manufacturing companies...<p>Or I could see it doing really well in high performance computing... Setup a dashboard to monitor compute clusters...<p>I really need to play with this!
I am not sure why this line is buried deep in information on their site:<p>"We also offer a Free Forever plan which includes one dashboard and access to Leftronic's custom data API."<p>This should be the pickup line.
We have a very geography-dependent product (peer-to-peer carsharing) and a ton of disparate data types. I hope we give Leftronic a try because I think it has a lot to offer. Keep it up guys!
Selling the illusion of control to lost managers is a pretty good business plan: it scratches an issue which terribly itches them, and they're paying with someone else's money.