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Revenue Strategies for AI API Services

Strategy: "The Open-Source Trojan Horse" via GitHub Trending + Reverse-Engineering Competitor APIs

The Core Idea:
You have 93 M2M APIs. Most are likely utility functions (data enrichment, parsing, conversion, niche calculations). Instead of building a website and waiting for traffic, release a free, high-quality Python/Node.js SDK on GitHub that wraps these 93 APIs into a single, easy-to-use client library. Then, aggressively reverse-engineer the top 5 direct competitors and post "Comparison/Alternative" content linking back to your free SDK.

Why this works for $0 revenue:

  1. Developers are your buyers. They trust code over marketing

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