Building a small API in a space with big competitors

Hey everyone, One thing I’ve had to think about while building FastBusiness API is the obvious question: Why build a company data API when bigger tools already exist? There are already large data enrichment platforms out there. Clearbit is probably one of the first names people think of in this space. But I don’t think every product needs a huge enterprise data platform. A lot of builders, small teams, internal tools, student projects, CRMs, directories, and SaaS products just need a simple way to turn a business name into a useful structured business profile. That is the gap I’m trying to build for. FastBusiness API is focused on being simple: send a business name optionally include a website or country receive a structured business profile get fields like website, industry, sector, headquarters, business type, identifiers where available, stock information where available, description, confidence score, and source links The way I’m trying to compete is not by prete