What "unlimited requests" should mean, precisely
Unlimited should be a testable claim, not a mood. If a plan has a real ceiling anywhere, that number belongs on the pricing page, not the word unlimited.
Blog topic
Our takes (page 2)
Opinion on the location data business: pricing, lock-in, privacy, and what the big providers get wrong.
Why per-country pricing tiers are a bad idea
Charging more to look up an address in one country than another treats geography itself as a pricing lever instead of plain, ordinary data to serve.
The case for treating postal code lookups as first class
A postal code endpoint priced and documented like an afterthought will get built like one too. Treating it seriously starts with treating it equally.
Why time zone bugs are usually a testing problem, not a data problem
Most time zone bugs do not come from bad data. They come from code that was never tested against the one week a year when the rules actually change.
What IPv6 adoption still gets wrong across this industry
An IP lookup API that still treats IPv6 as a minor edge case is quietly treating a growing share of real internet traffic as an afterthought.
Why address data should not require a sales call to test
A geocoding API that gates real testing behind a sales conversation is asking a developer for trust before it has actually earned any of it.
The real cost of a provider's free tier changing overnight
A free tier that gets cut without warning does not just cost the provider goodwill. It breaks whatever the customer built on top of an assumption that was never guaranteed.
Why we would rather lose a sale than hide a limit in fine print
A customer who signs up not understanding a limit is a customer who leaves angry later. Telling them up front costs a sale sometimes. It is still the better trade.
What "enterprise-grade" usually means in this industry
Enterprise-grade often just means the real price and the real usage limits are hidden behind a private sales call instead of a public pricing page.
Why account-level and network-level quotas should both exist
An account-level quota tracks who you are. A network-level quota tracks where your traffic actually comes from. A serious system needs both.
Only Our takes, as it is published.
Subscribe to Our takes