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🚀 Why API Maker is free?
▸ We believe backend development framework should be 100% free to use for everyone.
▸ Very useful to small businesses and students who cannot afford paid software.
▸ Because it is free, our marketing efforts will be very much less, and we can easily spread it over developer community.
▸ We are generating revenue by providing support to enterprises.
🚀 Will API Maker be free in future?
▸ Yes, That guarantee is indirectly given by Microsoft & Facebook & Docker.
▸ API Maker is distributed to its users via NPM & Yarn package managers and once we publish any package in NPM, it will stay in NPM forever. can not remove it from NPM even if we want.
▸ NPM is acquired by GitHub in 2020 and GitHub is acquired by Microsoft.
▸ Yarn is Node.js package manager from Facebook.
🚀 Why not open source?
▸ We do not want any modifications or distributions of API Maker other than company itself, so it will protect the intellectual property rights of API Maker.
▸ Because the source code is not publicly available and therefore less exposed to potential attackers.
▸ We are generating revenue by providing support to enterprises.
🚀 Developer | Client | Company : If we use API Maker, we will be dependent on it right?
▸ No. API Maker is 100% free.
▸ Other than generated APIs & it’s feature, it is just pure JavaScript, so any JS developer can work on it.
- We have done lots of documentation.
- We have tutorial videos.
▸ You will install it on your local/servers, so you will have full control over it.
🚀 API Maker is free right now, is it going to be free forever?
▸ Yes, we are distributing API Maker versions using NPM, and once you publish on NPM you can not remove it from NPM.
▸ Our business model is to gain profit from supporting to enterprises.
▸ API Maker backend solution will remain free indefinitely.
🚀 Can we connect to any other database which is not supported out of the box?
▸ Yes, you can connect any database you want and work easily with it as you can do in Node.js.
▸ You can add any NPM package support and use it in custom APIs.
🚀 How can we say it is complete backend solution?
▸ API Maker gives you tons of features, but it also provides you low level features, so you can extend its capabilities.
▸ Examples:
- Using native SQL query feature, you can run any complex SQL query over database. You can also execute procedures created inside DBMS.
- You can override default Docker file, and you can use any OS or any OS packages or any program that is built in any other programming languages.
- Generated & created APIs, you can consume from any other backend technology also, so you can keep your legacy code running and slowly migrate on API Maker.
🚀 What API Maker can not do?
▸ API Maker can not do video and audio streaming.
▸ Things which you should not develop in Node.js, should also not develop in API Maker.
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Work around:
You can keep that module separate with your API Maker backend, and they can easily communicate with each other.
🚀 We are not using freeware or open source product as our clients are not using it.
▸ You can buy support plans, you will get priority support and bug fixing of API Maker and upgrade guide and help from our side in every step you need.
🚀 Can we get code of API Maker?
▸ Technically you have API Maker code when you install it from NPM, it is just bundled & obfuscated.
▸ And technically you don’t need API Maker’s code also, because API Maker is just set of auto generated APIs, all other code and configurations will be done by you only.
▸ We can not provide original source code of API Maker, but you will get all the code and configurations you will build on top of it via git commit.
🚀 How long we will provide updates of API Maker?
▸ We are improving API Maker and providing bug fixing and upgrades.
▸ You can purchase our support plans and support our work to continue doing it, and you will get best support from our side also.
▸ API Maker is distributed with public via NPM and once you push in NPM, it can never be removed. NPM provides that trust.
🚀 Do you have any other question?
▸ Try reaching out to us
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