Selling commercial licenses to help companies benefit from reusable services: A real life example

Snowpal API: Even disparate systems have many things in common and there is plenty of benefit in being able to reuse what is already available and stable.

Jan 23, 2024

Transcript

Hey there, I hope you're doing well and you're staying warm. So, our, you know, one of the things we do at Snowpal is, we do many things and one of the things we do is building APIs, creating APIs and making them available for other people to consume. So the idea is you leverage the APIs. We have many of them, you leverage them either independently, you know, one at a time or a combination of those are all of them, right? That it doesn't really matter to us.

You pick the ones that make the most sense to you and you build your systems out in real quick time. and how you can do the integration it There's a design pattern But you can certainly digress and deviate outside the design pattern because it's very flexible and customizable So you can use it your dev team is going to you know be able to make a judgment in a couple of hours of actually Being exposed to those APIs and they would know best your dev team or your product management team now You know we're gonna like I mentioned in one of my previous videos.

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We're going to create content more content to help you understand a lot of this integration but I stumbled into something recently where I noticed that there's a software company quote unquote software company because they're there I guess you could call them I don't know a tech company let's say right generally they built a solution and I was using something else and I realized that it looked quite identical so you know it's not coincidental it was it was so identical that it's not something that somebody mimicked but they were actually same product and offering. So it was kind of interesting because I had not expected that company would have actually tried to potentially, right?

I'm speculating here because I have no idea but I have a hunch and I think it may not be wrong. So I noticed that they were actually they created the solution and then this other company was integrating that in a very interesting manner which is literally what our pitches right you should not be building what you do not have to be building because it's going to be a complete waste of time energy resources money and what not you should focus your energy and your team's energies on building you know solving those unique problems that you're starting out to solve for your customers right your core business problems everything else that's reasonably generic you should actually not reinvent the wheel and leverage companies that actually are able to provide those solutions and they're readily available to you. only once but

I looked and I'm not sure how many others there are out there. I'm sure there are but I just don't know. I couldn't, we couldn't find any at least not one that has the breadth of what we have to offer. If you don't agree check it out and let me know, let us know if you think otherwise and we'll be happy to answer any questions you have right. So the reason I created this, I'm doing this video is because just a heads up to the podcast that's coming up. Perhaps I'll be published that in the next day or so. I haven't even created the podcast, but we're going to take those tools and sort of poke into them and share our two cents and draw parallels to why you might also benefit from actually not rebuilding solutions that are out there and being able to leverage and integrate our existing offerings. I'm not trying to state the obvious here, if you will.

Summary

I'm just trying to share that I saw something recently and that resonated with me immediately because that's exactly the type of problem we are solving as well in a slightly different way, but there's lots of similarities, if you will, right? So I just wanna say that there's gonna be a podcast coming up and I think it's gonna be very interesting, even if I'm saying so myself. You know, a lot of our podcasts, we just hop on it, click record and hit the ground running. I mean, we don't... prepared necessarily because ideas to socialize what we know and what we don't know very honestly with you and learn with you as somebody who's watching these podcasts and sessions. That's about it. Hope you have a nice week. Thanks.

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