Maybe I'm just dumb but this seems like a big missed opportunity. Github currently has rate limits for their APIs. They could make billions of dollars if they just charged for people beyond the free/enterprise/etc tier. They allow for increasing the rate limit, at a price proportional value, just like AWS. I don't mean a flat increase for like enterprise, but an increasing rate as number of requests go up in tiers, rather than just hard limiting based off number of users/accounts or whatever. Am I missing something here? #github
Presumably part of the reason they rate limit is to maintain the robustness of their current infrastructure, that's not to say they couldn't change their infrastructure to support higher throughput and the pricing structure you're recommending, but it becomes a product question at this point, and there may be other projects more lucrative and higher priority.