I love Open source projects, that's i always find myself building one and contributing on one.
As a Nigeria developer, we always have the need to create a form that will take not just the State of Nigeria but its various LGA and Town. With so much search on the internet i couldn't find one that will suit my needs. That's why i decided upon my self to build one so that not other develop will not fall on this situation like i did.
Afterward, i competed the Nigeria-State-LGA API, if you have not seen it you can check it out here. It was like to joke to me at first. Haha, who's gonna use it.. Apparently no one. But later on i started getting some metric on PostMan. I was like what!. Alright, that's cool.
By the way, these were the stack i used : i) NodeJs / Typescript, ii) MongoDB iii) VueJs
I need a free domain, so i decided to use Vercel, also, i need to deploy the backend somewhere that is also free, i turned to Render.
Things where going fine, not until few months back i start receiving mails from render that i am about to reach my monthly limit, if this happens they will suspended the API.
You can find a screenshot of one of the mails here.
I don't want this to happen as much as those using this API.
We can put hands together and not let this happen. Sometime ago, i got a coffee from Ayodeji. Thanks by the way. I decided to use that going a for a plan in Render, any coffee you buy to going to the payment.
So, if you are using the API, you can help support it. I am going attach the link after.
Thanks