Dear Google: Don’t Be Evil
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It took us less than a month to go from free to this no thanks to Google’s non existent emails. Jump to the code about halfway through if you are having a similar problem with Google Places API.When I first started KinkBNB in 2015, I bought an off-the-shelf AirBNB clone codebase to build the first version on. One of the things we had to do was hook it up to Google Places API with an API key. It was amazing to me how it transformed the dead piece of software we’d gotten from an off-shore programming company into something that seemed to work. It was only after we got into operation that the problem became clear — despite the fact that the software worked, it didn’t actually monetize our traffic because AirBNB’s business model only works at scale. It took us two different packages to come to (...)
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