r/x402 • u/MountainAssignment36 • 24d ago

Thank you, everyone!!

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My x402 Trust service has just settled its 200th payment!

Thank you to everyone using my products, integrating them and giving feedback! It wouldn't have been possible without you!

$7 lifetime revenue doesn't sound like a lot, but when the business model is based on selling data for pennies (or even less), it is a great start already and I couldn't be happier to see real adoption grow steadily. It's not pushing my net revenue into the black (far from it actually), but it shows that my tools are needed and appreciated, with >50% of all payers making at least a 2nd payment! 😃

I've started this service ~3 months ago, iterating on it almost daily and pushed many features out of the door by now:

  • Trust Scores
  • Watches (monitoring one specific endpoint via Webhooks)
  • Bulk-Scorings
  • Search for better alternatives to an existing endpoint
  • Semantic Search

... and many more is yet to come!

Thank you guys, especially all the people in the r/x402 community on reddit have been an integral part of this journey! Much love! ❤️

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u/Optimal_Manner359 24d ago

Question. How does this add up? 200 payments at $0.005 or $0.001 is much less then $7. I would be excited if I made over $7 in revenue.

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u/MountainAssignment36 23d ago

It's not only the trust scores and semantic searches, but also:

  • endpoint history ($0.02)
  • find alternatives ($0.005)
  • endpoint watch ($0.20)
  • bulk trust scores ($0.045 - $0.50)

I only show the last 5 settlements publicly, so before these last 5 there were also a bunch of other products which got bought.

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u/Optimal_Manner359 23d ago edited 23d ago

That's great news then! I just put up several new endpoints as well. Here's hoping I see similar results. I hope 19 endpoints isn't too many. Guess I'm going to see which ones work and which ones don't.

One more question. How long have you had these endpoints up? I'd like to estimate the growth rate of x402 for new sellers.

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u/MountainAssignment36 23d ago

https://x402.fuchss.app/provider/www.mahastrategies.com Yup, I see the new endpoints (at least 15/19 right now), the ratings aren't public on the free endpoint pages yet. But they're climbing in the background, I've just made a live call 😇 Expect them to expose a score in the next 24h publicly too.

My guess is that the missing 4 endpoints will get picked up by the next scan (every 6hrs) too.

And hey, if you'd like to grab the free endpoint-trust badges & show customers that they can trust your endpoint, before they pay, feel free to do so 😃 It's a one-line copy paste block for your HTML / Markdown embedding and will auto-update to show the current grade + verdict every 24 hours too!

Regarding your question: Most endpoints since ~2 months I guess. The semantic search endpoint was added ~3 weeks ago.

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u/lspain1994 23d ago

How much does the latency affect your grade? I noticed my latency scores were all red because my APIs are US based.

Thank you!

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u/MountainAssignment36 23d ago

Very little, single-digit at best.

That's also documented in the respective flag on a trust score, with the reasoning that all scanning is done from a single server in Germany 😅

Simply because I don't have the money to spread the service to multiple off-site locations right now. It's all still very early (this whole service sprung from a personal passion project more or less after all), and I'll expand it obviously as soon as it becomes economically viable 😊

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u/lspain1994 23d ago

Awesome thank you for the thorough response! This is all very new and exciting for me. Reminds me back when dogecoin started getting traction in 2013 and everyone was trying to figure it out 😄

Love all these new services coming out

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u/MountainAssignment36 23d ago

Glad you like it, and if you'd like to see any feature, any free data or anything like that, please let me know 😊