My partners and I came up with an idea for a product and simultaneously started building a product and scouting around the market to see what competition was out there.  In that process we found a couple of API&#x27;s available to use that basically took care of the data processing we needed to be done, so we started using them.  So now our product is essentially repackaging these API&#x27;s* and selling to the customer (with very little of our own proprietary IP). We&#x27;re finding demand in the market place for the service and signing up customers. We all use 3rd party tech at some level (from AWS up the stack), but this tech goes to the core offering. I&#x27;m wondering what people think about businesses like this?<p>*Our API usage is in compliance with the terms of service, so this is really a business question, not a legal one.
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