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After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days

David Kopec's blog.

Instead, it served as a super fast, well-integrated with macOS, way to search for restaurants on your Mac with the option to go to the Yelp website to read more reviews and see more details. At the time that I wrote my reply I still was not aware (based on the first email) that no free version of the Yelp Fusion API any longer existed since the email only mentioned “enterprise” and “data.” I should have checked the Yelp developer website to better understand the situation before replying but I was surprised and given the 4-day deadline wanted to get a response as quickly as possible given the threat. The other thing this taught me is the danger of an up-front paid model for apps that depend on ongoing access to third-party services.

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