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aw3c2 on June 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Collaborative international cost-of-living index

Why not open it in a open data spirit to anyone so incentivise curious people can create nice analysis whenever they feel like it?

patio11 on June 30, 2014 [–]

This will result in people attempting to outcompete his site using functionally the same business model and UX but superior SEO. c.f. StackOverflow clones.

yitchelle on June 30, 2014 | [–]

He could charge for the usage of the data.

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