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Real-time API Polling Optimizer

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devtools profitable added: Thursday January 2026 12:41

A service that analyzes API usage patterns and automatically adjusts polling frequency to optimize costs and performance while maintaining data freshness, preventing the situations described with crypto portfolio trackers.

120h
mvp estimate
7.8
viability grade
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technology stack

NodeJS Python PostgreSQL Medium

inspired by

1-second polling doesn't scale (and the architectures that do)